Big Data-Driven Approach for Health Inequalities in Foreign Patients with Injuries Visiting Emergency Rooms.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Foreign patients are more likely to receive inappropriate health service in the emergency room. This study aimed to investigate whether there is health inequality between foreigners and natives who visited emergency rooms with injuries and to examine its causes.

Methods

We analyzed clinical data from the National Emergency Department Information System database associated with patients of all age groups visiting the emergency room from 2013 to 2015. We analyzed data regarding mortality, intensive care unit admission, emergency operation, severity, area, and transfer ratio.

Results

A total of 4,464,603 cases of injured patients were included, of whom 67,683 were foreign. Injury cases per 100,000 population per year were 2,960.5 for native patients and 1,659.

SUBMITTER: Kang JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7010947 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature