Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License 4. The work cannot be used commercially without permission from the journal. To assess healthcare resource utilization and costs of patients with asthma in Brazilian Supplementary Healthcare System, focusing on hospitalization data.
Retrospective cohort study, using data from an administrative database of a private company Orizon. A total of 54, patients were included in this analysis. Regarding resource utilization, emergency visit and hospital admission rates of 0.
Mean length of hospital stay were 8. An exacerbation rate of 0. To improve disease control may reduce disease burden for both healthcare system and patients. Asthma is a heterogeneous and multifactorial condition characterized by chronic inflammation of the lower respiratory tract.
It is often associated with episodes of wheezing, breath shortness, chest tightness and cough, occurring mainly in the evening or early morning. The inflammatory environment may also be associated with an increase in existing bronchial hyperresponsiveness after a variety of stimuli exposure. In , million people were diagnosed with asthma worldwide according to the World Health Organization. In the previous year, the occurrence of , asthma-related deaths was estimated.
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According to the Global Initiative for Asthma and Asthma Management Recommendation of de Brazilian Thoracic Society, the objectives of asthma long-term management are to relief symptoms and to achieve asthma control. However, based on a national survey conducted in Brazil only Therefore, according to treatment steps, the use of inhaled corticosteroids alone or in combination with long acting beta-2 agonist is recommended until steps 4 and 5; and long-acting antimuscarinic may be used as an add on treatment.
