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

ABSTRACT:

Background

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

Objective

Our aim was 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 Travis County, Texas, census tracts and to assess the contribution of census tract characteristics to their distribution.

Results

There were distinct patterns in ED visit

SUBMITTER: Zarate RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8578425 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature