Table 2. Health care resource use, total and per patient (2002–2007).

Health care resource	Encounters
	Total	Per patient-year
Hospitalization*	7,807	4.0†
Physician visits	1,518,582	0.79
Asthma-related medications	4,463,903	2.26

^* Including Emergency Department visits;

^† Per 1,000 patients.