Trends and characteristics of attendance at the emergency department of a Swiss university hospital: 2002-2012.
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2015
- doi: 10.4414/smw.2015.14141
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M. Shaha et al., « Trends and characteristics of attendance at the emergency department of a Swiss university hospital: 2002-2012. », Serveur académique Lausannois, ID : 10.4414/smw.2015.14141
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BACKGROUND: The numbers of people attending emergency departments (EDs) at hospitals are increasing. We aimed to analyse trends in ED attendance at a Swiss university hospital between 2002 and 2012, focussing on age-related differences and hospital admission criteria. METHODS: We used hospital administrative data for all patients aged ≥16 years who attended the ED (n = 298,306) at this university hospital between 1 January 2002, and 31 December 2012. We descriptively analysed the numbers of ED visits according to the admission year and stratified by age (≥65 vs