Neighborhood-level variability in asthma-related emergency department visits in Central Texas.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The extent to which incidence rates of asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits vary from neighborhood to neighborhood and predictors of neighborhood-level asthma ED visit burden are not well understood.

Objective

We aimed to describe the census tract-level spatial distribution of asthma-related ED visits in Central Texas and identify neighborhood-level characteristics that explain variability in neighborhood-level asthma ED visit rates.

Methods

Conditional autoregressive models were used to examine the spatial distribution of asthma-related ED visit incidence rates across census tracts in Travis County, Texas, and assess the contribution of census tract characteristics to their distribution.

Results

There were distinct patterns in ED visit in

SUBMITTER: Zarate RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12285651 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature