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Inpatient Hospitalizations due to Asthma by County, New Jersey, 2023

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Inpatient Hospitalizations due to Asthma by County, New Jersey, 2023

Why Is This Important?

Asthma is a chronic disease that affects the airways that carry oxygen in and out of the lungs. Asthma cannot be cured, but it can be controlled with an effective medical management plan and avoidance of environmental or occupational triggers.

Definition

Inpatient hospital discharges with a primary diagnosis of asthma. *ICD-9-CM code: 493 (2000 through 2015) *ICD-10-CM code: J45 (2016 and onward)

Data Notes

Data have been age-adjusted to the U.S. 2000 standard population.

Data Sources

How the Measure is Calculated

  • Numerator:

    Number of hospital discharges with a primary diagnosis of asthma

  • Denominator:

    Estimated number of persons in the population

Data Issues

'''Missing data in 2022:''' Three hospitals in Camden and Gloucester Counties submitted their fourth quarter data after the file closure deadline so their data are missing from the 2022 inpatient and emergency department datasets. '''Overall Discharge Volume in 2020: ''' Hospital claim volume for the 2020 calendar year was markedly lower (19.9%) than for 2019, mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This reduction was seen in both inpatient discharges (8.2% lower claim volume than 2019) and emergency department visits (27.3% lower claim volume than 2019). This was likely the result of hospital care being redirected to address the care for COVID-19 patients while elective surgeries and other outpatient care services were being postponed. '''Caveats specific to 2017 data:''' NJDOH changed its vendor for hospitalization data collection in 2017 resulting in data loss at some facilities during the transition period. Additionally, The old vendor experienced a global malware incident in June 2017 that possibly resulted in the loss of some data in the system queue at that time. '''ICD Coding between 2015 and 2016: ''' The nationwide switch from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM hospital diagnosis coding on October 1, 2015 disrupted trends for some diseases and conditions. Interpret trend data in this report with caution. Also note that New Jersey's data for October through December, 2015 was recoded to ICD-9-CM so that entire year of data was coded the same way.

Related Health Objectives and Indicators



  • Health Initiative: HNJ2020

    Healthy NJ 2020 Objective AS-2a

    NJ Target: Reduce asthma hospitalizations among children under age 5 years to 221 per 100,000 population for the total population, 77 for Asians, 527 for Blacks, 219 for Hispanics, and 129 for Whites by 2020
    https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/asthma.shtml

    Healthy NJ 2020 Objective AS-2b

    NJ Target: Reduce asthma hospitalizations among persons aged 5-64 years to 66 per 100,000 population for the total population, 12 for Asians, 181 for Blacks, 72 for Hispanics, and 39 for Whites by 2020
    https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/asthma.shtml

    Healthy NJ 2020 Objective AS-2c

    NJ Target: Reduce asthma hospitalizations among persons aged 65 years and older to 73 per 100,000 population for the total population, 50 for Asians, 136 for Blacks, 147 for Hispanics, and 51 for Whites by 2020
    https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/asthma.shtml



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Indicator Data Last Updated On 09/23/2024, Published on 10/18/2024
Environmental Public Health Tracking Project, New Jersey Department of Health, PO Box 369, Trenton, NJ 08625-0369, e-mail: nj.epht@doh.nj.gov (https://www.nj.gov/health/epht)