Factors Associated with Emergency Department Revisits and Hospitalization Following Discharged Acute Asthma Exarcerbation
Medicine and Health
;
: 22-28, 2016.
Article
in English
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-625300
ABSTRACT
The objectives were to identify factors associated with early revisit of adult patients with acute asthma exarcebation discharged from the Emergency Department (ED). It was a retrospective cohort study with patients aged 12 years or more within a period of 1 month and who were treated for acute asthma and discharged from the ED of Sarawak General Hospital. A total of 397 patients fulfilled sampling criteria and out of this number, 13.9% had revisit to the ED within 2 weeks. In all of these revisit cases, 9.1% were actually admitted. Prescription rate of oral corticosteroid was found to be low (24.9%) and abscond rate was high (25.1%). Patients who absconded from the ED and their concurrent infection were associated with early ED revisit.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Asthma
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Medicine and Health
Year:
2016
Type:
Article
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