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ICUs that use APACHE II as their database severity of illness scoring system will find it easy to apply the system to this subgroup of patients rather than implementing a special disease-specific system exclusively for OLTX patients.
In the present study, disease-specific severity was associated with a greater risk of hospitalization, controlling for other demographic, clinical, and health care access factors.
Despite the acknowledged limitations, NAMCS and NHAMCS cover a longer consecutive time span and provide more complete information about disease-specific physician activities than many other national data bases, e.g., the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey, the National Health Assessment Nutrition Examination Survey, and the National Health Interview Survey.
On examining disease-specific severity in more detail, we found that recent asthma hospitalizations and systemic corticosteroid use accounted for most of this increased risk, whereas recent respiratory symptoms and other asthma medication use were not predictive.
We previously developed and validated a 13-item disease-specific severity-of-asthma score with four subscales: frequency of current asthma symptoms (daytime or nocturnal), use of systemic corticosteroids, use of other asthma medications (besides systemic corticosteroids), and history of hospitalizations and intubations [ 23, 24, 25].