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Conditions
Brief summary
This research aims to identify modifiable hospital, GP and family factors associated with asthma re-admissions in children. The findings from this research will be used to inform practical interventions and solutions to reduce child asthma re-admissions to hospitals.
Interventions
A multicentre cohort study of all children aged 3 to 18 years admitted to the Royal Children's Hospital, The Northern Hospital and University Hospital Geelong, Victoria between 1st September 2017 and 31st August 2018 with a discharge diagnosis of “Asthma” or “Wheeze”. These children will be followed up for a minimum of 1 year ending on 1st September 2019 using data linkage from the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED) and the Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD) to identify re-admiss
A multicentre cohort study of all children aged 3 to 18 years admitted to the Royal Children's Hospital, The Northern Hospital and University Hospital Geelong, Victoria between 1st September 2017 and 31st August 2018 with a discharge diagnosis of “Asthma” or “Wheeze”. These children will be followed up for a minimum of 1 year ending on 1st September 2019 using data linkage from the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED) and the Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD) to identify re-admissions to hospitals and/or emergency. We will compare hospital, GP, and family factors (including environmental exposures) associated with asthma re-admissions between those with the outcome (children with at least 1 re-admission within the observation period) and those without the outcome (children with no re-admission during the observation period). Hospital factors will be obtained from medical record analysis, GP factors from mail surveys, Medicare Benefits Scheme (MBS) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) data, family factors from semi-structured phone interviews (30-60 minutes), MBS and PBS, and environmental factors from local pollen and pollution data.
Sponsors
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
3 Years to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1. Admitted to hospital for the inpatient treatment of asthma between 1st September 2017 and 31st August 2018 with a discharge diagnosis of “Asthma” or “Wheeze”. 2. Has a legally acceptable representative capable of understanding the informed consent document and providing consent on the participant’s behalf. 3. Is aged between 3 and 18 years.
Exclusion criteria
Has a serious comorbid condition such as cystic fibrosis, congenital heart disease (not fully corrected), cerebral palsy, and other suppurative lung diseases.
Outcome results
None listed