Continuity of primary care and avoidable hospitalization in a young population with asthma: a population-based cohort study
Iyn-Hyang Lee, Sangwan Kim, Eunjung Choo, Eun Jin Jang, Nam Kyung Je · 2024
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Description
Seeing the same doctor over time may keep young asthma patients out of hospital, and Iyn-Hyang Lee and co-authors test that claim in South Korean insurance data. Their cohort held 136,296 children and teenagers newly diagnosed with asthma in 2015 and 2016. A continuity index sorted them into high, medium, and low groups by how consistently they visited one primary care provider.
Over two years, about eight percent were hospitalized for asthma. The high-continuity group fared best at about five and a half percent, against eight and a half in the low group. After adjustment, low continuity carried thirty percent higher admission risk and medium continuity fourteen percent higher. Repeated checks across subgroups told the same story.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Iyn-Hyang Lee, Sangwan Kim, Eunjung Choo, Eun Jin Jang, Nam Kyung Je |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |