Who is admitted to hospital with asthma?

Issues at the interface between primary and secondary care in the management of common respiratory disease bullet 3: Providing better asthma care: what is there left to do?

“…The difficulty with this approach is that attack and admission risk do not correlate closely with treatment step. Patients can and do have severe attacks at step 1,26 although the correlation between attacks and routine symptom assessment is better in children 27…”