| Asthma in Michigan
Asthma Emergency Department Visits
- 9.5% of children (<18 years) and 7.6% of adults (≥18 years) with current asthma visited an emergency room or urgent care center for asthma ≥2 times in the past year. [1]
- In 2004, the overall rate of asthma emergency department visits in Michigan was 53.5 visits per 10,000. [2]
- The rate of asthma emergency department visits was almost twice as high in children (age ≤ 14 years) than adults (age ≥ 15 years), 82.5 per 10,000 versus 46.0 per 10,000, respectively. [2]
- For children (<18 years) continuously enrolled in Medicaid, with full coverage and no other insurance (2005): [3]
- The total number of asthma emergency department visits for was about 16,100.
- The rate was 242.5 per 10,000.
- Rates of asthma emergency department visits are increasing over time among children in Medicaid.
- For children (<18 years) continuously enrolled in Medicaid, with full coverage and no other insurance, with persistent asthma (2005): [3]
- 33.8% had at least 1 emergency department visit for asthma.
- 29.9% of all outpatient visits for asthma occurred in the emergency department – a measure of reliance on the emergency department for asthma care.
- For children and adults (ages 5-56 years) with persistent asthma enrolled in a health plan included in the Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium of health plans (http://www.mqic.org/)
- The rate of asthma emergency department visits was 178.33 per 1,000 commercial plan members with asthma. [4]
- The rate of asthma emergency department visits was 268.27 per 1,000 Medicaid plan members with asthma. [4]
- The rate of asthma emergency department visits was 87.33 per 1,000 Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Michigan plan members with asthma. [4]
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Last Updated 03/09/2009
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