Patients with difficult asthma with home spirometers—demographics and outcomes
| Age (years) | Total patients | Sex M:F | Biologics | Hospital admissions | Steroids/antibiotics | >20% decrease in FEV1 | Action taken | |||
| 2019 | 2020 | 2019 | 2020 | 2019 | 2020 | |||||
| 5–11 | 20 | 13:6 | 4 | 6 | 6 (12) | 2 (6) | 8 (20) | 10 (23) | 10 (21) | 19 |
| 12–18 | 30 | 14:16 | 11 | 15 | 4 (14) | 1 (1) | 12 (33) | 14 (24) | 9 (18) | 15 |
| Total | 50 | 27:23 | 15 | 21 | 10 (26)* | 3 (6)* | 20 (53) | 24 (47) | 19 (39) | 34 |
Numbers without brackets=number of patients; numbers in brackets=number of episodes. Significant difference in hospital admissions between 2019 and 2020 (p<0.01).
FEV1, forced expiratory volume in 1 s.