| アブストラクト | OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to estimate how many patients with asthma in England met the referral eligibility criteria using national asthma guidelines, identify what proportion were referred and determine the average waiting time to referral. DESIGN: This is an observational cohort study. SETTING/DATA SOURCES: Routinely collected healthcare data were provided by Clinical Practice Research Datalink records and Hospital Episode Statistics records from January 2007 to December 2015. PARTICIPANTS: Patients with asthma aged 18-80 years participated in this study. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Eligibility for referral by the British Thoracic Society/Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (BTS/SIGN) 2016 guidelines, determined after a 3-month pharmacological therapy exposure assessment, was classed by either 'high-dose therapies', 'continuous or frequent use of oral steroids' or 'incident eligibility' during follow-up (continuous oral corticosteroids for more than 3 months, or >/=800 microg/day inhaled corticosteroids/long-acting beta2-agonist (or three controllers) and >/=2 asthma attacks/year). RESULTS: From the final cohort (n=23293), 19837 patients were eligible for specialist referral during follow-up based on the BTS/SIGN guideline recommendations. Among eligible patients without any previously recorded referral, 4% were referred during follow-up, with a median waiting time of 880 days (IQR=1428 days) between eligibility and referral. CONCLUSIONS: A large number of patients with asthma were eligible for specialist referral, of which a small proportion were referred, and many experienced a long waiting time before referral. The results indicate a major unmet need in asthma referral, which is a potential source of preventable harm and are likely to have implications regarding how services are organised to address this unmet need. |
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| ジャーナル名 | BMJ open |
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| Pubmed追加日 | 2019/11/23 |
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| 投稿者 | Blakey, John D; Gayle, Alicia; Slater, Mariel G; Jones, Gareth H; Baldwin, Michael |
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| 組織名 | Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia,;Australia.;University of Liverpool Department of Health Services Research, Liverpool, UK.;Market Access, Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd, Bracknell, UK.;Medical Affairs, Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd, Bracknell, UK;mariel.slater@boehringer-ingelheim.com.;Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals NHS;Trust, Liverpool, UK.;TA Respiratory/Biosimilars, Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim am;Rhein, Germany. |
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| Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31753883/ |
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