TY - JOUR T1 - An inverse relationship between asthma prevalence and medication dispensation trend: a 12-year spatial analysis of electronic health record data in Alberta, Canada JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00489-2022 VL - 9 IS - 2 SP - 00489-2022 AU - Subhabrata Moitra AU - Andrew Fong AU - Mohit Bhutani Y1 - 2023/03/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/9/2/00489-2022.abstract N2 - Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that affects >300 million people worldwide [1]. As of 2019, 2.95 million Canadians were diagnosed with asthma [2]. While there are standard recommendations and guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma, patients living with this disease often experience poor health-related quality of life [3] and continue to experience exacerbations [4].Despite guideline-based asthma management in Alberta, an inverse trend between asthma prevalence and dispensation of asthma medications in the past 12 years possibly underscores the reason for a large number of emergency department visits https://bit.ly/3HQsBo8 ER -