A new study highlights different patterns of clinic and ED acute care use for asthma among non-Hispanic Black and bilingual Latino children compared with non-Hispanic white children.
Non-Hispanic Black children with asthma had lower clinic use but higher ED use, and bilingual Latino children had a higher clinic use for acute, chronic and preventive care, compared with non-Hispanic white children with asthma, researchers reported in Annals of Family Medicine.
The observational study evaluated electronic health records of 41,276 children with asthma (mean age, 7.6 years; 42.9% girls) from