Cigarette smoking and emergency care utilization among XXXX adults in the 2011 Asthma Call-back Survey.

@entity748 @entity565 @entity341
OBJECTIVE: Estimate the association between smoking and emergency care in the past 12 months among @entity748 adults in a nationally representative sample. METHODS: Using the 2011 Asthma Call-Back Survey, the association between smoking status and @entity341 ( @entity341 ) and urgent visits among @entity748 adults (n   =   12   339) was assessed through multivariable logistic regression by a cross-sectional study design. Analyses used survey weights for US population-based estimates. Attributable and population attributable risk were calculated to describe the potential benefits of smoking cessation. RESULTS: Adjusting for potential confounders, during the past 12 months former smokers had 1.30 (95% CI: 0.97, 1.74) times the odds and current smokers had 1.46 (95% CI: 1.05, 2.03) times the odds of visiting the @entity341 compared to never smokers. Former smokers had 1.28 (95% CI: 0.99, 1.65) times the odds and current smokers had 1.29 (95% CI: 0.96, 1.73) times the odds of urgent visits compared to never smokers. Among adult asthmatics, an estimated 9% of @entity341 visits and 6% of urgent visits can be attributed to current smoking while 7% of @entity341 visits and 7% of urgent visits can be attributed to former smoking. CONCLUSIONS: Current and former smokers are more likely to need emergency care than never smokers. About 10% of emergency care visits among asthmatics can be attributed to smoking assuming smoking is causally related to emergency care. Long-term effective management of @entity565 , particularly the prevention and cessation of smoking, could reduce emergency care use and health care costs.
