PMID: 8598937Feb 23, 1996Paper

The pattern of consultations for asthma in a general practice over 5 years

The New Zealand Medical Journal
M Kljakovic, C Salmond

Abstract

To describe the pattern of consultations for asthma by asthmatic patients in a single general practice over a five year period. A predominantly European middle class population in Karori, Wellington. Retrospective data on consultations for asthma identified by set criteria were obtained from computer records from the 1 November 1986 to the 30 October 1991. 1173 patients were studied. Fifty one patients (4.3%) had been admitted to hospital. The admission rate was 17.2 per 1000 consultations for asthma per year. More households with patients who had been admitted had other members with diagnosis of asthma (39%) compared to households with patients who had not been admitted (19%). One hundred and forty six patients (12.5%) had never attended the general practice for consultations for asthma. There were 3844 consultations for asthma over 5 years with 9% of consultations occurring 1 to 7 days after a given consultation. The overall mean number of daily consultations for asthma was 2.11 per day. There was a skewed distribution of consultation for asthma per day of week with 21.5% of all consultations for asthma occurring on a Monday. There was an uneven distribution of consultations for asthma per month of year with the least of all ...Continue Reading

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