Prescribing incidents included: people with asthma prescribed a long-acting reliever inhaler (LABA or LAMA) without inhaled steroids, and people with asthma prescribed more than 12 reliever inhalers without a review in the last 12 months. People who had both errors were only counted once.
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Adults: incidents of dangerous asthma prescribing in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013
This statistic displays data on the total estimated incidents of dangerous prescribing of asthma medication among adults in the United Kingdom (UK) in the period 2010 to 2013. In the United Kingdom there were approximately thousand cases of dangerous prescribing among adults, of which **** thousand incidents took place in England.
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NHS Wales, & Asthma UK. (June 16, 2015). Total estimated incidents of dangerous asthma prescribing among adults in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013 [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ. Retrieved August 04, 2026, from /statistics/481184/dangerous-asthma-prescribing-incidents-adults-united-kingdom-uk/
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Total estimated incidents of dangerous asthma prescribing among adults in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013 [Graph], NHS Wales, & Asthma UK, June 16, 2015. [Online]. Available: /statistics/481184/dangerous-asthma-prescribing-incidents-adults-united-kingdom-uk/