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Reduce emergency department visits for people aged 5 years and over with asthma — RD‑03 Data

Status: Little or no detectable change

  Little or no detectable change

Most Recent Data:
41.1 emergency department visits for asthma per 10,000 persons (2019-21) *

Target:
40.2 per 10,000  *

Desired Direction:
Decrease desired

Baseline:
49.6 emergency department visits for asthma per 10,000 persons aged 5 years and over occurred in 2016-18  *

Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.

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Confidence Interval (CI) not available Standard Error (SE) not available Confidence Interval (CI) and Standard Error (SE) are not available

Emergency department visits for asthma, 2016-18 to 2019-21 * 
(emergency department visits for asthma per 10,000 persons)
Decrease desired

Population 2016-18 2019-21
Total
49.6
CI 42.9 / 56.2
SE 3.391
41.1
CI 34.9 / 47.3
SE 3.163