Asthma-related physician office visits

The rate of physician office visits with asthma as the first-listed diagnosis was 304.4 per 10,000 persons.

Physician office visits are an important part of asthma care.  The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program’s expert panel recommends visits to a clinician about every six months for patients whose asthma is under control and more often for patients whose asthma is uncontrolled or has severe persistent asthma^¶.

Rate* of physician office visits with asthma as first-listed diagnosis by sex and age, 2015

In 2015, about 6.2% of all physician office visits were asthma-related and approximately 9.6 million physician office visits with asthma as the first-listed diagnosis (304.4 per 10,000) were reported. The rate of physician office visits was 391 per 10,000 persons among children and 278 per 10,000 persons among adults. Although physician office visits varied by the demographic characteristics, the only statistically significantly difference was between the rates for children and adults and for the 5–17 and 18–34 age groups. No statistically significant differences were noted when US census regions and MSA status were compared.