Emergency department visits and infections

Predicting Emergency Department Visits

High utilizers of emergency departments account for a disproportionate number of visits, often for nonemergency conditions. This study aims to identify these high users prospectively. Routinely recorded registration data from the Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System was used to predict whether patients would revisit the Emergency Department within one month, three months, and six...

air pollution and emergency department visits for headache and migraine

conclusions our findings support a number of statistically significant positive associations between air pollutants and the number of ed visits for headache and migraine. background associations between ambient air pollution and emergency department (ed) visits for headache and migraine were examined in a multi-city study during the period of april 2004 to december 2011 in nine cities across on...

Return visits to the emergency department.

A persistent problem for emergency physicians is the patient who returns unscheduled to the emergency department with a problem that either has not improved or has worsened. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the frequency of revisits and the nature of the problems. All patients returning within 72 hours of their initial visit were entered into the study. The charts were evaluated for cl...

Sources of Potentially Avoidable Emergency Department Visits.

Emergency Department Visits after Kidney Transplantation.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In 2011, there were approximately 131 million visits to an emergency department in the United States. Emergency department visits have increased over time, far outpacing growth of the general population. There is a paucity of data evaluating emergency department visits among kidney transplant recipients. We sought to evaluate the incidence and risk factors for emergenc...