Role of Adult Asthma Education in Improving Asthma Control and Reducing Emergency Room Utilization and Hospital Admissions in an Inner City Hospital

Table 2

Main study outcomes.

Outcomes	Before education	After education	value
Number of patients requiring ER visits	94	60	0.0005
Number of patients requiring hospitalization	49	26	0.0015
Average number of ER visits/patient/year	0.91 ± 1.748	0.61 ± 1.401	0.04
Average number of admissions/patient/year	0.34 ± 0.87	0.19 ± 0.70	0.0015
Average ICU admission/patient/year	0.03 ± 0.183	0.03 ± 0.195	0.7637
Number of patients with controlled asthma (ACT ≥ 20)	20 ()	44 ()	0.0001
Average number of clinic visits/patient/year	1.76 ± 2.51	2.18 ± 2.40	0.0185
Number of patients with >1 ER visits/year	41	31	0.7087
Number of patients with >1 admission/year	14	8	0.7202