Anatolian Journal of Emergency Medicine

Yazarlar: Ayfer YÜKSEL

Konular:Tıp

Anahtar Kelimeler:Emergency department patient profile,Social security,Triage

Özet: Aim: The aim was to evaluate the patients who presented to the emergency department of the hospital of a foundation university in Ankara in terms of gender, age, social security institutions, season, diagnosis, the number of consultations and hospitalization and triage codes. Material and Methods: The research is a retrospective descriptive study. Data of patients who presented to emergency department of a foundation university hospital in Ankara between August 01, 2017, and July 31, 2018 were used. (n = 16,383). In order to compare the data, mean, percentage, crosstab and chi-square test were used. Results: The mean age of the patients was 41.5, and of the patients, 59.2% were female and 40.8% were male. In terms of triage categories, 0.3% were very urgent, 39.6% were urgent and 60.1% were non-urgent cases. The consultation rate was 12.5%,) and the hospitalization rate was 8.1%. The most frequent diagnoses were 10.5% abdominal pain (R10.4), 7.2% were nausea and vomiting (R11), and 5.9% were acute upper respiratory tract infection (J06.9). The applications significantly differed in terms of seasons and age groups. Most of the presentations were in the winter season with a rate of 31% and the presentation significantly differed in terms of seasons and age groups. Conclusion: Although the high rate of non-urgent patients and low rate of consultation and hospitalization in these results were in line with other studies in the literature, the rate of non-urgent patients was found to be higher and the rate of hospitalization was lower.

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