Repeat Emergency Department Visits Among Patients With Asthma and COPD
Status:
Terminated
Trial end date:
2016-09-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The purpose of the proposed study is to determine whether the addition of inhaled
corticosteroids to treatment with oral corticosteroids and albuterol would reduce repeat
emergency department (ED) visits among patients treated for acute exacerbations of asthma and
COPD discharged from the emergency department to home. The investigators hypothesize that
patients treated with inhaled corticosteroids in addition to oral corticosteroids and
albuterol will have lower rates of 30-day return visits to the emergency department than
those patients treated with oral corticosteroids and albuterol only.