Diagnosis and mortality of emergency department patients in the North Denmark region.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency departments handle a large proportion of acute patients. In 2007, it was recommended centralizing the Danish healthcare system and establishing emergency departments as the main common entrance for emergency patients. Since this reorganization, few studies describing the emergency patient population in this new setting have been carried out and none describing diagnoses and mortality. Hence, we aimed to investigate diagnoses and 1- and 30-day mortality of patients in the emergency departments in the North Denmark Region during 2014-2016.

Methods

Population-based historic cohort study in the North Denmark Region (580,000 inhabitants) of patients with contact to emergency departments during 2014-2016. The study included patients who were referred by genera

SUBMITTER: Sovso MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6044093 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature