Common diseases in children in emergency room, Siriraj Hospital 1984.

The study two carried out by collecting the primary diagnosis of all pediatric patients who attended the emergency room at the O.P.D. building, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital in 1984. There were 30203 patients attended. The most common problems was respiratory disease, which covered 64.59% of the patients. The most common of 10 diseases comprised of URI (22.9% of all pediatric patients), pharyngitis (14.9%), tonsillitis (13.1%). Diarrhea (7.2%), pneumonia (6.2%), asthma (4.7%), bronchitis (3.9%), fever of unknown origin (3.2%), allergic rhinitis (2.5%) and acute haemorrhagic fever (1.8%) respectively.