Table 4.
30-day follow-up by exacerbation treatment location among 5348 pediatric patients who experienced an asthma exacerbation, Hospital System A, 2011–2015.
| English-only |
Bilingual |
LEP |
p value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Follow-up visits | Patients | % | Follow-up visits | Patients | % | Follow-up visits | Patients | % | ||
| Urgent care | 950 | 2015 | 47% | 166 | 284 | 58% | 194 | 292 | 66% | <0.001 |
| Emergency department | 854 | 1680 | 51% | 94 | 122 | 77% | 145 | 205 | 71% | <0.001 |
| Inpatient including PICU | 467 | 640 | 73% | 28 | 34 | 82% | 67 | 76 | 88% | 0.009 |
| Overall | 2271 | 4335 | 52% | 288 | 440 | 65% | 406 | 573 | 71% | |
LEP = limited English proficiency; PICU = Pediatric intensive care unit