The increasing burden of asthma acute care in Singapore: an update on 15-year population-level evidence
Laura Huey Mien Lim, Wenjia Chen, Joseph Emil Amegadzie, Hui Fang Lim · 2023
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Laura Huey Mien Lim and co-authors chart twenty-five years of asthma emergency care in Singapore and project its future, in a 2023 paper. Asthma attacks send many people to emergency rooms and hospital wards, yet city-wide trend data were scarce. The team gathered national registry records covering hospital stays and deaths over twenty-five years, plus emergency visits over fifteen. They hunted for stretches where rates held steady and modelled the rest.
Hospital stays hovered near eighty episodes per hundred thousand people from 2003 to 2019. The authors split the timeline at change points to read the trend cleanly. They then built a forecast model that mixes future population size with the latest stable rates. The projection runs to 2040, giving health planners a sense of the asthma load ahead and where services may strain.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Laura Huey Mien Lim, Wenjia Chen, Joseph Emil Amegadzie, Hui Fang Lim |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |