Skip to main content
Health Atlas Clinical knowledge graph search
  • Home
  • Acute bronchitis
Diagnosis concept

Acute bronchitis

One diagnosis code, shared across patients.

Provenance
Code
10509002
  • 4,459 patients
  • 39% of all patients
  • #15 of 778 across all diagnoses, by patients
  • 5,601 recorded episodes

Coding

System
SNOMED-CT

What treats it

medication concept Acetaminophen 325 MG Oral Tablet
4,198 prescriptions
procedure concept Measurement of respiratory function
2,791 procedures
medication concept Acetaminophen 21.7 MG/ML / Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide 1 MG/ML / doxylamine succinate 0.417 MG/ML Oral Solution
1,402 prescriptions
procedure concept Sputum examination
1,082 procedures
procedure concept Plain X-ray of chest
264 procedures

Counted over the prescriptions and procedures that recorded this diagnosis as their reason.

Age at first diagnosis

Acute bronchitis: median 34 across all diagnoses: median 35

Age at first diagnosis Bar chart. Age at first diagnosis. 4,459 patients in all; the largest group is 20 to 29 with 671; Acute bronchitis: median 34 years; across all diagnoses: median 35 years. 0 200 400 600 0 to 9: 665 patients 10 to 19: 613 patients 20 to 29: 671 patients 30 to 39: 563 patients 40 to 49: 616 patients 50 to 59: 603 patients 60 to 69: 376 patients 70 to 79: 222 patients 80 to 89: 78 patients 90 and over: 52 patients 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 years
Half of these patients were 34 or older. Across all diagnoses, half were 35 or older. The 20 to 29 hold the most, 671 patients. A few first diagnoses are back-dated into infancy, and some conditions are handed an age by the decade, which draws a spike rather than a spread.

How long it stays on the record

How long it stays on the record Bar chart. How long it stays on the record. 7 categories; the largest is up to a month with 5,181 episodes. no end recorded: 24 episodes no end recorded 24 a week or less: 396 episodes a week or less 396 up to a month: 5,181 episodes up to a month 5,181 up to three months: 0 episodes up to three months 0 up to a year: 0 episodes up to a year 0 one to five years: 0 episodes one to five years 0 over five years: 0 episodes over five years 0
up to a month, more than any other. 5,601 episodes in all. “No end recorded” is an episode the generator never closed, not one known to be ongoing.