LB961 Disparities in dermatology referral and consultation patterns in the emergency department
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Referral patterns in elderly emergency department visits.
OBJECTIVE To assess elderly individuals' demand for emergency department (ED) care, in terms of the characteristics, processes, outcomes, costs by referral pattern. DATA SOURCE All ED visits involving patients aged 65 and older, extracted from the 2010 dataset of an Local Health Agency, in North-Eastern Italy (no. = 18 648). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Pati...
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The age, sex, source of referral and diagnosis of children brought to a paediatric accident and emergency department by their parents were compared to those consulting their general practitioner. A simultaneous, prospective review of these consultations was carried out over a six-week period in an inner-city paediatric teaching hospital and a group practice in a socially deprived urban area. 73...
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OBJECTIVE Consultation is a common and important aspect of emergency department (ED) care. We prospectively examined the consultation rates, the admission rates of consulted patients, the emergency physician (EP) disposition prediction of consulted patients and the difficult consultations rates in 2 tertiary care hospitals. METHODS Attending EPs recorded consultations during 5 randomly select...
متن کامل[Dermatology consultations in an emergency department prior to establishment of emergency dermatology cover].
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE an increasing number of patients seek emergency treatment for dermatologic complaints. The aim of this study was to assess the characteristics of skin complaints seen in an emergency department prior to establishment of specialist dermatology cover. MATERIALS AND METHODS a retrospective, descriptive study was undertaken using data on urgent dermatology cases seen by n...
متن کاملCutaneous Conditions Leading to Dermatology Consultations in the Emergency Department
INTRODUCTION We established the most common cutaneous diseases that received dermatology consultation in the adult emergency department (ED) and identified differentiating clinical characteristics of dermatoses that required hospital admission. METHODS A retrospective chart review of 204 patients presenting to the ED who received dermatology consultations at Los Angeles County/University of S...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Investigative Dermatology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0022-202X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2020.05.057