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A Comparison of Emergency Department Revisit Rates of Pediatric Patients between Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Periods
Unscheduled revisits to emergency departments (EDs) are important because they indicate the quality of emergency care. However, the characteristics of pediatric patients visiting EDs changed during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and these changes may have affected their revisit pattern...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9322694/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35883987 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9071003 |
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author | Namgung, Myeong Lee, Dong Hoon Bae, Sung Jin Chung, Ho Sub Park, Ji Young Kim, Keon Lee, Choung Ah Kim, Duk Ho Kim, Eui Chung Lim, Jee Yong Han, Sang Soo Choi, Yoon Hee |
author_facet | Namgung, Myeong Lee, Dong Hoon Bae, Sung Jin Chung, Ho Sub Park, Ji Young Kim, Keon Lee, Choung Ah Kim, Duk Ho Kim, Eui Chung Lim, Jee Yong Han, Sang Soo Choi, Yoon Hee |
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description | Unscheduled revisits to emergency departments (EDs) are important because they indicate the quality of emergency care. However, the characteristics of pediatric patients visiting EDs changed during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and these changes may have affected their revisit patterns. Therefore, we aimed to compare the ED revisit patterns of pediatric patients between the pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 periods. This retrospective multicenter study included patients aged below 18 years who visited the ED in the pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 periods. ED revisit rates were analyzed using five age groups and three visit-revisit intervals. In the pre-COVID-19 period, the revisit rates decreased with increasing age. In the COVID-19 period, the revisit rates were the lowest for the group aged 4–6 years, and the rates increased for those aged ≥7 years. In conclusion, there were changes in the patterns of revisit rates of pediatric patients according to age between the pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 periods. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the reasons for revisits according to age and establish strategies to reduce the revisit rates of pediatric patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-93226942022-07-27 A Comparison of Emergency Department Revisit Rates of Pediatric Patients between Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Periods Namgung, Myeong Lee, Dong Hoon Bae, Sung Jin Chung, Ho Sub Park, Ji Young Kim, Keon Lee, Choung Ah Kim, Duk Ho Kim, Eui Chung Lim, Jee Yong Han, Sang Soo Choi, Yoon Hee Children (Basel) Article Unscheduled revisits to emergency departments (EDs) are important because they indicate the quality of emergency care. However, the characteristics of pediatric patients visiting EDs changed during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and these changes may have affected their revisit patterns. Therefore, we aimed to compare the ED revisit patterns of pediatric patients between the pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 periods. This retrospective multicenter study included patients aged below 18 years who visited the ED in the pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 periods. ED revisit rates were analyzed using five age groups and three visit-revisit intervals. In the pre-COVID-19 period, the revisit rates decreased with increasing age. In the COVID-19 period, the revisit rates were the lowest for the group aged 4–6 years, and the rates increased for those aged ≥7 years. In conclusion, there were changes in the patterns of revisit rates of pediatric patients according to age between the pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 periods. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the reasons for revisits according to age and establish strategies to reduce the revisit rates of pediatric patients. MDPI 2022-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9322694/ /pubmed/35883987 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9071003 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Namgung, Myeong Lee, Dong Hoon Bae, Sung Jin Chung, Ho Sub Park, Ji Young Kim, Keon Lee, Choung Ah Kim, Duk Ho Kim, Eui Chung Lim, Jee Yong Han, Sang Soo Choi, Yoon Hee A Comparison of Emergency Department Revisit Rates of Pediatric Patients between Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Periods |
title | A Comparison of Emergency Department Revisit Rates of Pediatric Patients between Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Periods |
title_full | A Comparison of Emergency Department Revisit Rates of Pediatric Patients between Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Periods |
title_fullStr | A Comparison of Emergency Department Revisit Rates of Pediatric Patients between Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Periods |
title_full_unstemmed | A Comparison of Emergency Department Revisit Rates of Pediatric Patients between Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Periods |
title_short | A Comparison of Emergency Department Revisit Rates of Pediatric Patients between Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Periods |
title_sort | comparison of emergency department revisit rates of pediatric patients between pre-covid-19 and covid-19 periods |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9322694/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35883987 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9071003 |
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