Open AccessRisk factors, management and outcomes of patients admitted with near fatal asthma to a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh
Author(s) -
Hasan M. AlDorzi,
Haifa Alshammary,
Salha Y Al-Shareef,
Hani Tamim,
Khaled Shammout,
Abdulaziz Al Dawood,
Yaseen M. Arabi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
annals of thoracic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.639
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1817-1737
pISSN - 1998-3557
DOI - 10.4103/1817-1737.124441
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , odds ratio , confidence interval , pediatrics , multivariate analysis , exacerbation , univariate analysis , retrospective cohort study
Near-fatal asthma (NFA) has not been well studied in Saudi Arabia. We evaluated NFA risk factors in asthmatics admitted to a tertiary-care hospital and described NFA management and outcomes.