Cartography of Emergency Department Visits for Asthma – Targeting High-Morbidity Populations

BACKGROUND: Asthma education should be offered with priority to populations with the highest asthma-related morbidity. In the present study, the aim was to identify populations with high-morbidity for asthma from the Quebec Health Insurance Board Registry, a large administrative database, to help th...

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Main Authors: Pierre Lajoie, Andrée Laberge, Germain Lebel, Louis-Philippe Boulet, Marie Demers, Pierre Mercier, Marie-France Gagnon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2004-01-01
Series:Canadian Respiratory Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2004/607625