Health service utilisation associated with chronic breathlessness: random population sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most health service utilisation studies are of people with specific diagnoses or demographic characteristics, and rarely of specific chronic symptoms. The aim of this study was to establish whether population-level health service utilisation increases in people with chronic breathlessness.

Methods

A cross-sectional analysis was carried out of the South Australian Health Omnibus Survey 2017, a multi-stage, clustered area, systematic sampling survey of adults where questions are administered face-to-face in respondents' homes. Self-report of health service utilisation in the previous 3 months (medical consultations, emergency department, hospital admission), chronic breathlessness (severity, duration, modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) breathlessness scale) an

SUBMITTER: Currow DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8503326 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature