A real-world evaluation of the effectiveness and Sufficiency of Current Emergency Department Preventative Strategies for Reducing Emergency Department revisits in a Canadian children’s hospital: a retrospective cohort study

Table 2 Characteristics of cohort at index asthma emergency department visit

	EDPS* (n = 1034)	EDPS not documented (n = 267)	p-value
Age, years mean, (SD), [95% CI]	5.0 (3.7), [4.7–5.2]	6.5 (4.5) [5.9-7.0]	< 0.01
Sex Male N (%)	673 (65.0%)	158 (59.1%)	0.07
PRAM at index visit			< 0.01
N (%):
0–3 (mild) 4–7 (moderate) 8–12 (severe) Missing	176 (18.9%) 339 (36.4%) 416 (44.7%) 103 (10.0%)	102 (48.3%) 51 (24.2%) 58 (27.5%) 56 (21.0%)
Prior history of asthma N (%)	781 (75.5%)	215 (80.5%)	0.08
Allergy
N (%):
None Nuts Food Other**	647 (62.3%) 173 (16.7%) 163 (15.8%) 211 (20.4%)	149 (55.8%) 47 (17.6%) 44 (16.5%) 77 (28.8%)	0.05 0.72 0.78 < 0.01
Second hand smoke	54 (5.2%)	13 (4.9%)	1.0
exposure N (%)
Has a primary care physician N (%)	885 (85.6%)	235 (88.0%)	0.32
Prior ED visits N (%)	180 (17.4%)	45 (16.9%)	0.83
Return ED visit or hospitalization N (%)	233 (22.5%)	57 (21.3%)	0.74

SD = standard deviation, 95% CI = 95% confidence interval, PRAM = pediatric respiratory assessment measure, EDPS = emergency department preventative strategies
*Definition of EDPS is having documentation of Asthma Action Plan (AAP) OR controller inhaler prescribed OR referral to specialist
**Allergies were divided into categories. Nuts = all nuts including peanuts and tree nuts; food = all foods excluding nuts; other = all reported allergies that were not to nuts or food types, e.g. pollen, dust, etc.

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