Emergency department visits for non-life-threatening conditions : evolution over 13 years in a Swiss urban teaching hospital
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2015
- doi: 10.4414/smw.2015.14123
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L. Diserens et al., « Emergency department visits for non-life-threatening conditions : evolution over 13 years in a Swiss urban teaching hospital », Serveur académique Lausannois, ID : 10.4414/smw.2015.14123
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INTRODUCTION: A large proportion of visits to our Emergency Department (ED) are for non-life-threatening conditions. We investigated whether patients' characteristics and reasons for consultation had changed over 13 years. METHODS: Consecutive adult patients with non-life-threatening conditions at triage were included in the spring of 2000 and in the summer of 2013. In both years patients completed a similar questionnaire, which addressed their reasons for consultation and any previous consultation with a general practitioner (GP). RESULTS: We included 581 patients in 2013 vs 516 in 2000, with a mean age of 44.5 years vs 46.4 years (p=0.128). Of these patients, 54.0% vs 57.0% were male (p=0.329), 55.5% vs 58.7% were Swiss (p=0.282), 76.4% were registered with a GP in both periods, but self-referral increased from 52.0% to 68.8% (p