Asthma emergency department visits: children age 5-14
Childhood asthma ED visits are a key indicator of asthma, for reasons and this is some remaining filler text for the indicator description.
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How Calculated: Number of asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits among NYC resident children aged 5 to 14 years.
An ED visit is included if it has an ICD-9 principal diagnosis code of 493 or an ICD-10 principal diagnosis code of J45. New York hospitals began using the ICD-10 system on October 1, 2015. Because the ICD systems are similar in how they classify childhood asthma, data can be compared across years.
Source(s): New York State Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) Deidentified Hospital Discharge Data
How Calculated: Number of asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits among NYC resident children aged 5 to 14 years, divided by the population of children 5 to 14 years old, using NYC DOHMH intercensal estimates; expressed as cases per 10,000 residents.
An ED visit is included if it has an ICD-9 principal diagnosis code of 493 or an ICD-10 principal diagnosis code of J45. New York hospitals began using the ICD-10 system on October 1, 2015. Because the ICD systems are similar in how they classify childhood asthma, data can be compared across years.
Source(s): New York State Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) Deidentified Hospital Discharge Data.
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