哮喘虽有现代治疗,其死亡率并未降低。自六十年代中期哮喘流行平息后,在英格兰和威尔士其死亡率仍保持大致恒定,任何年龄组均无变化的趋势,每年约有1500人死亡,其中不少死亡是可以避免的。1979年英国胸腔协会(BTA)调查委员会报告90例死亡中,77例(82%)存在可能避免死亡的因素,并强调处理上存在一些严重缺点。家庭或医院处理哮喘上的缺点以往虽屡见报道,但多无对照,也未肯定死亡病人处理上不如一般病人。BTA评定 Although modern treatment of asthma, its mortality did not decrease. After the epidemic of asthma subsided in the mid-1960s, the mortality rates in England and Wales remained generally constant. There was no change in any age group, with about 1,500 deaths each year. Many of these deaths are avoidable. Of the ninety-nine deaths reported by the British Thoracic Society (BTA) Commission of Inquiry in 1979, 77 (82%) had a possible risk of dying and emphasized some serious shortcomings in treatment. Although the shortcomings of the family or the hospital to deal with asthma, although often reported, but no more control, but also not sure the treatment of patients with death than the average patient. BTA assessment