EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT RETURN VISITS WITHIN A LARGE GEOGRAPHIC AREA

被引:12
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作者
Mimi Truong [1 ]
Meckler, Garth [1 ,2 ]
Doan, Quynh H. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ British Columbia, Fac Med, Dept Pediat, Vancouver, BC, Canada
[2] British Columbia Childrens Hosp, Div Emergency Med, Vancouver, BC, Canada
来源
JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE | 2017年 / 52卷 / 06期
关键词
epidemiology; health care utilization; pediatrics; quality improvement; return visits to the emergency department; CHILDREN; ADMISSION; COSTS;
D O I
10.1016/j.jemermed.2017.01.009
中图分类号
R4 [临床医学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100602 ;
摘要
Background: Return visits to the emergency department (RTED) contribute to overcrowding and may be a quality of care indicator. Previous studies focused on factors predicting returns to and from the same center. Little is known about RTEDs across a range of community and specialty hospitals within a large geographic area. Objective: We sought to measure the frequency of pediatric RTEDs and describe their directional pattern across centers in a large catchment area. Methods: We conducted a multicenter, retrospective cross- sectional study of pediatric emergency visits in the Vancouver lower mainland within 1 year. Visits were linked across study sites, including one pediatric quaternary care referral center and 17 sites ranging from large regional centers to smaller community emergency departments (EDs). Returns were defined as subsequent visits to any site with a compatible diagnosis within 7 days of an index visit. Results: Among a total of 139,278 index ED visits by children, 12,133 (8.7% [95% confidence interval 8.6- 8.9%]) were associated with 14,645 return visits to an ED. Three quarters of all index visits occurred at a general ED center, of which 8.9% had at least one RTED and 22% of these returns occurred at the pediatric ED (PED). Among PED index visits, 8.2% had at least one RTED and 13.6% of these returned to a general center. Overall, 38.9% of all RTEDs occurred at the PED. Multivariate regression did not identify any statistically significant association between ED crowding measures and likelihood of RTEDs. Conclusions: Compared to singlecenter studies, this study linking hospitals within a large geographic area identified a higher proportion of RTEDs with a disproportionate burden on the PED. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:801 / 808
页数:8
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