Complacency in asthma care is costing lives, UK experts warn

摘要

A comprehensive review of asthma deaths in the UK has shone a light on routine failures of basic care and prescribing errors of a "frankly horrifying scale". The authors of the first confidential enquiry report, commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) and managed by the Royal College of Physicians, are calling for an end to complacency around asthma care so that more is done to save lives. The UK already has among the highest rates of asthma mortality in Europe, with the latest findings showing that asthma deaths are on the rise again. The review-published to coincide with World Asthma Day on May 6-explored the circumstances surrounding 195 asthma deaths that occurred between February, 2012, and January, 2013.