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STUDY OF CASUALTY PATIENTS AT AN URBAN HOSPITAL
Author(s) -
STARR DAVID
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1973.tb110544.x
Subject(s) - medicine , medical emergency , family medicine , emergency medicine , demography , sociology
All patients attending the casualty section of a large urban hospital over a two‐week period were studied using a questionnaire. Of the 1,580 patients, about half were found to have many characteristics of general practice patients, using the emergency service as their local doctor. This subgroup was compared with the group of all patients attending, and analysis revealed some unexpected findings such as that most of these patients attended during normal working hours, that half of them had an annual income in excess of $5,000 per annum, and that half considered that they did not have a personal or family doctor.