Patients with Liver Cirrhosis as Frequent Attenders of Emergency Departments.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Frequent attendance for nonemergency problems to emergency departments (EDs) contributes to ED overcrowding, resulting in medical care delays, increased medical errors, and social and economic burdens. Most studies regarding frequent attenders of EDs examine general patients without classifying certain subgroups. This study aimed to investigate patients with liver cirrhosis who present repeatedly to the ED.

Methods

This was a retrospective, observational cohort study of adult patients with a history of liver cirrhosis presenting to the ED from January 2011 to December 2015. We included patients with cirrhosis whose first ED visit occurred during the study period. We went far back for 20 years and excluded patients with any ED visits (including both cirrhosis and n

SUBMITTER: Chuang CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7036124 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature