International trends in hospital admission rates for asthma.
Open Access
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 60 (4), 376-378
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.60.4.376
Abstract
Trends in annual hospital admission rates for asthma in the 0 to 14 year age group were examined in New Zealand, England and Wales, the United States, Canada, and Australia. There has been a striking increase in hospital admissions for asthma in children in all these countries since the mid 1960s.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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