Estimated cost of asthma in outpatient treatment: a real-world study.

Objective: To estimate the cost of diagnosis and treatment of asthma.

Methods: We used the perspective of society. We sequentially included for 12 months, in 2011-2012, 117 individuals over five years of age who were treated for asthma in the Pneumology and Allergy-Immunology Services of the Piquet Carneiro Polyclinic, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

Asthma and the socio-economic reality in Brazil.

Background: Asthma is a prevalent disease that is considered a health problem worldwide. The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical and socioeconomic characteristics of a cohort of asthmatics receiving specialized outpatient treatment in a tertiary/teaching public hospital in Brazil.

Methods: Persistent asthmatics older than 5 years old were consecutively included.