Cross-Sectional Study on Hospital Admission for Asthma Patients in Romania, 2008-2018
Cross-Sectional Study on Hospital Admission for Asthma Patients in Romania, 2008-2018

Summary/Abstract: The current article looks on the hospital admission rates variance for asthma in the years following Romanian admission to EU. For this aim a cross-sectional study for period 2008-2018 was carried out, focused on the activity of Romanian hospitals reporting primary data at the patient level in the DRG National Database. Descriptive and comparative analyses were used in order to identify the profile and trend in number of cases and rate of asthma inpatient stays. For comparison (with a probability of 95%) on Asthma Inpatient Stays Rates, a step of standardization of the crude rate and standardized ratio computation was planned. The results show that in the last ten years there is a clear tendency of decreasing hospital morbidity by asthma in number, crude rate or standardized rate and this descendent trend is statistical significant for all categories of patients related to different patient characteristics such as: age groups, sex, residence, territorial administrative units, etc. In conclusion, asthma represents an important condition for the hospitalized pathology in Romania. Hospital admissions for asthma are an indirect indicator not only for the severe asthma burden, but also for the efficacy of health care system, as good outpatient care can potentially prevent the need for hospitalization; in this respect the significant decrease of asthma hospital episodes in the last 10 years proves the importance of the introduction of the new valid diagnostic and treatment methods, even if they are more expensive initially.

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