Concordance in Medical Urgency Classification of Discharge Diagnoses and Reasons for Visit.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Current policies to divert emergency department (ED) visits for less medically urgent conditions to more cost-effective settings rely on retrospective adjudication of discharge diagnoses. However, patients present to the ED with concerns, making it challenging for clinicians.

Objective

To characterize ED visits based on the medical urgency of the presenting reasons for visit and to explore the concordance between discharge diagnoses and reasons for visit.

Design, setting, and participants

In this retrospective, cross-sectional study, a nationwide sample of ED visits by adults (aged ≥18 years) in the US from the 2018 and 2019 calendar years' ED data of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey was used. An algorithm to probabilistically assign ED

SUBMITTER: Giannouchos TV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10782231 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature