Open AccessPredictors of Admission in Adult Unscheduled Return Visits to the Emergency Department
Author(s) -
Jake Hayward,
Reidar Hagtvedt,
Michael T. Warren,
Aliyah Gauri,
Michael Vester,
Brian R. Holroyd
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the western journal of emergency medicine/western journal of emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.811
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1936-9018
pISSN - 1936-900X
DOI - 10.5811/westjem.2018.8.38225
Subject(s) - emergency department , medicine , triage , emergency medicine , referral , crowding , odds ratio , retrospective cohort study , hospital admission , cohort , pediatrics , family medicine , neuroscience , psychiatry , biology
The 72-hour unscheduled return visit (URV) of an emergency department (ED) patient is often used as a key performance indicator in emergency medicine. We sought to determine if URVs with admission to hospital (URVA) represent a distinct subgroup compared to unscheduled return visits with no admission (URVNA).