Asthma: secondary care data
ISD publishes information on the number of episodes of care and on incidence of asthma admission. Episodes represent consultant episodes, and there may be more than one episode of care per hospital stay. In this ISD publication incidence is defined as the "first" hospital admission with asthma, excluding people who have had any asthma admission in the 10 years previously. Data are available by financial year and by NHS board and are summarised in the NHS Board data page in this section. Further information is available on the ISD inpatient, day case and outpatient activity site.
Longer term trends in asthma admissions are shown in Chart 1. The upper (green) line shows the annual number of hospital episodes with asthma per 100,000 population and the lower (red) line the number of patients (per 100,000 population) with at least one admission for asthma during the year. Both sets of figures are shown by calendar (rather than financial) year. The chart shows that there has been an increase in crude episode rates for asthma between 2003 and 2008, though not to the level seen in 1999. The number of patients closely tracks the hospital episode rate, with a consistent annual average of around 1.2 episodes per patient during the period. Note that the figures in Chart 1 are restricted to emergency admissions only and so differ from the figures given in the ISD site.
Please note: If you require the most up-to-date data available, please check the data sources directly as new data may have been published since these data pages were last updated. Although we endeavour to ensure that the data pages are kept up-to-date, there may be a time lag between new data being published and the relevant ScotPHO web pages being updated.
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