Independent Predictors of Repeat Emergency Room Presentations: Insights from a Cohort of 1066 Consecutive Patients with Non-Cardiac Chest Pain Generating 4770 Repeat Presentations.

ABSTRACT:

Background and importance

Chest pain (CP) is one of the most frequent presentations to the emergency department (ED), a large proportion of which is non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP). Repeat attendances to ED are common and impose considerable burden to overstretched departments.

Objective

Our aim was to determine drivers for repeat ED presentations using NCCP as the primary cause of index presentation.

Design, setting and participants

This was a retrospective cohort study of 1066 consecutive presentations with NCCP to a major urban hospital ED in North England. Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), a postcode-derived validated index of deprivation, was computed. Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) was determined by reference to known comorbidity variables. Repeat presentatio

SUBMITTER: Khand A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10455527 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature