Table 3.

Numbers of events in secondary care for respiratory reasons among 1409 patients prescribed inhaled corticosteroids

Secondary care events	No of events (No of patients) among all patients			No of events (No of patients) among 155 patients who received two or more high dose prescriptions*
	Budesonide alone (n=501)	Beclomethasone alone (n=908)		Budesonide alone (n=77)	Beclomethasone alone (n=78)
Inpatient admissions	8 (8)	10 (10)		0	2 (2)
Outpatient consultations	72 (22)	52 (23)		11 (5)	19 (7)
Emergency room visits	28 (21)	30 (21)		5 (4)	6 (5)
No (%) of patients with any secondary care event†	37 (7)	37 (4)		8 (10)	8 (10)

^*Daily dose >800 μg (to age 14 years) or >1500 μg (15 years and over). 

^†Patients may have had events in more than one department, so total numbers of patients are not sums of the numbers of patients in each department.