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Table 5 High-level summary of data in the SingHealth COPD and Asthma Data Mart (SCDM) as of 31-Dec-2019

From: Development of a real-world database for asthma and COPD: The SingHealth-Duke-NUS-GSK COPD and Asthma Real-World Evidence (SDG-CARE) collaboration

 

SGH cohort n = 8,816

SHP cohort1 n = 29,574

Combined cohort n = 36,407

Age2, mean (SD) years

59.1 (20.9)

50.3 (23.0)

51.8 (22.9)

Gender = male, %

54.5

50.9

51.6

Race

   

 Chinese

5,950 (67.5)

15,062 (50.9)

19,749 (54.2)

 Malay

1,047 (11.9)

8,499 (28.8)

9,250 (25.4)

 Indian

1,127 (12.8)

3,729 (12.6)

4,550 (12.5)

 Others

692 (7.8)

2,284 (7.7)

2,858 (7.9)

Smoking habit3, n (%)

   

 Non-smoker

3,073 (34.9)

18,650 (63.0)

20,208 (55.5)

 Smoker

435 (4.9)

1,171 (4.0)

1,469 (4.0)

 Ex-smoker

355 (4.0)

169 (0.6)

440 (1.2)

 Not available

4,953 (56.2)

9,584 (32.4)

14,290 (39. 3)

Condition, n (%)

   

 Asthma

5,257 (59.6)

25,896 (87.6)

29,730 (81.7)

 COPD

1,411 (16.0)

3,021 (10.2)

4,057 (11.1)

 Both

306 (3.5)

657 (2.2)

778 (2.2)

 Neither4

1,842 (20.9)

0 (0.0)

1,842 (5.0)

Year entered SCDM, n (%)

   

 2015

1,969 (22.3)

13,885 (47.0)

14,837 (40.8)

 2016

2,020 (22.9)

4,915 (16.6)

6,530 (17.9)

 2017

1,635 (18.5)

3,790 (12.8)

5,159 (14.2)

 2018

1,732 (19.7)

3,763 (12.7)

5,271 (14.5)

 2019

1,460 (16.6)

3,221 (10.9)

4,610 (12.7)

Total number of visits5

38,773

198,047

236,820

  1. 1The SHP cohort includes the pediatric population
  2. 2Refers to age at entry into the SCDM
  3. 3Based only on data captured in structured data input fields, excluding smoking data captured in free-text fields
  4. 4Of the ten pre-defined diagnosis codes used for inclusion into SCDM, some were technically not asthma or COPD diagnoses (e.g. “Bronchiectasis). For cases which were included in SCDM and had purely non-asthma and non-COPD diagnoses, we classified them in the “Neither” group. The reason for the expanded list of pre-defined diagnosis codes was to strengthen the case finding, which could then be filtered out during the subsequent analysis
  5. 5Refers to number of outpatient visits to respective institutions