Factors associated with overall and high-risk return visits to the emergency department: a vital sign trajectory approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For patients and emergency department (ED) physicians, return visits to the ED represent a potentially detrimental issue. In this study, our goal was to examine factors associated with overall and high-risk ED revisits. Specifically, as vital signs during the ED stay may provide important clues for subsequent revisits, we also examined the association between vital sign trajectories and post-ED revisits.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study utilized electronic clinical warehouse data from a tertiary medical center. We retrieved data from 454,330 ED visits over four years. The data included patient demographics, triage data, and repeated vital sign measurements. Group-based trajectory modeling was used to identify vital sign trajectories. A high-risk return ED v

SUBMITTER: Wang HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11993975 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature