Abstract: Background: Asthma is a reversible obstructive airway condition which is recognized as a major public health problem in Bangladesh. This causes recurrent attack, and decrease in quality of life of patient. According to World Health Organization (2016), it was estimated that approximately 383000 deaths occurred due to asthma in 2015. In Bangladesh, Asthma is one of the leading causes of death and disability. Approximately 11.6 million people suffer from asthma-related symptoms in Bangladesh (Mamun et al., 2016), whereas 15 to 20 million people were asthmatics in India (Burke et al., 2003). However, there are about 3 million asthmatics in Japan of whom 7% have severe and 30% have moderate asthma (Varalakshmi & Rajinder, 2014). Severe acute asthma causes recurrent attack, frequent hospitalization, increase in treatment cost, increase in use of health resources, increase in societal....
Key words: Asthma patient, Characteristics, Specialized Hospital
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