Cancer-related Emergency Department Visits: Comparing Characteristics and Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is increasing appreciation of the challenges of providing safe and appropriate care to cancer patients in the emergency department (ED). Our goal here was to assess which patient characteristics are associated with more frequent ED revisits.

Methods

This was a retrospective cohort study of all ED visits in California during the 2016 calendar year using data from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. We defined revisits as a return visit to an ED within seven days of the index visit. For both index and return visits, we assessed various patient characteristics, including age, cancer type, medical comorbidities, and ED disposition.

Results

Among 12.9 million ED visits, we identified 73,465 adult cancer patients comprising

SUBMITTER: Nene RV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8463053 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature