Total annual costs and annual costs per patient: results of the sensitivity analyses (2008 Canadian dollars).

*Narrow definition: hospitalizations in which asthma was coded as the ‘most responsible’ diagnosis (i.e., ICD-9 493.x or ICD-10 J45, J46), physician visits that were coded as asthma according to the ICD-9 code 493.x, short list of asthma-related medications;
†Broad definition: all hospitalizations in which asthma was indicated among the discharge diagnoses, all physician visits for an asthma-related diagnosis, long list of asthma-related medications;
‡Patient-years with active asthma are the years in which the patient has consumed at least one asthma-related health care resource. (hospitalization, physician visit or asthma-related medication).