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© 2021 Alsallakh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

[...]asthma is mostly managed in primary care in the UK with hospital care reserved for those with more severe disease or, most commonly, in the context of asthma attacks. [...]in order to comprehensively investigate inequalities in asthma care in this country, there is a need to study asthma care provision across care sectors. In this study, we investigated socioeconomic variations in asthma care and outcomes in Wales, including asthma-related primary and secondary health service utilisation, prescribing, and mortality, using a multifaceted measure of socioeconomic deprivation as well as individual domains of deprivation. Asthma-related health service utilisation was measured as counts of the corresponding primary and secondary care events, length of stay (LOS) in hospital, and controller-to-total asthma medication ratio (AMR) during the follow-up period. For each health service utilisation count variable, we fitted a negative binomial (NB) generalised linear model using the glm.nb function from the MASS package (version 7.3–51.4) [28].

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Title
Association of socioeconomic deprivation with asthma care, outcomes, and deaths in Wales: A 5-year national linked primary and secondary care cohort study
Author
Alsallakh, Mohammad A  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Rodgers, Sarah E  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Lyons, Ronan A  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Sheikh, Aziz  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Davies, Gwyneth A
First page
e1003497
Section
Research Article
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Feb 2021
Publisher
Public Library of Science
ISSN
15491277
e-ISSN
15491676
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2501878225
Copyright
© 2021 Alsallakh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.