Emergency department usage by adults with cerebral palsy: A retrospective cohort study
| Autor: | Joanne Enticott, Jaskirath Gill, Prue Morgan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Cerebral Palsy Retrospective cohort study Emergency department medicine.disease Cerebral palsy Cohort Studies Hospitalization Epilepsy Ambulatory Health care Cohort Emergency Medicine medicine Humans Medical diagnosis Child Emergency Service Hospital business Retrospective Studies |
| Zdroj: | Emergency Medicine Australasia. 34:169-175 |
| ISSN: | 1742-6723 1742-6731 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1742-6723.13832 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE To retrospectively profile the ED usage for a cohort of adults with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS Five years of ED data from a Victorian hospital network was analysed to identify participants with CP using the Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset supplemented with scrutiny of inpatient admission data to identify cases because of limited ED coding of CP. Presentation frequency, emergency diagnoses (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision codes) and presentation sequelae were calculated and described. An investigation into rates of low urgency presentations was conducted. Differences between adult and paediatric cohorts were described. RESULTS Participants with CP constituted 1586 ED presentations. Adults represented 43% (n = 689) of these. Thirty percent of adults presented more than five times over the study period, with respiratory (25%), gastrointestinal (17%) and epilepsy/convulsion diagnoses (11%) being the most common presentations. Rates of inpatient hospital admissions from the ED increased with age in adults (P |
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