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- Title
A Comparison of Emergency Department Revisit Rates of Pediatric Patients between Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Periods.
- Authors
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
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
RESEARCH; HOSPITAL emergency services; NOSOLOGY; ANALYSIS of variance; AGE distribution; RETROSPECTIVE studies; MEDICAL care use; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; DATA analysis software; COVID-19 pandemic; CHILDREN; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Children, 2022, Vol 9, Issue 7, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2227-9067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/children9071003