People who make frequent emergency department visits based on persistence of frequent use in Ontario and Alberta: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The factors that underlie persistent frequent visits to the emergency department are poorly understood. This study aimed to characterize people who visit emergency departments frequently in Ontario and Alberta, by number of years of frequent use.

Methods

This was a retrospective cohort study aimed at capturing information about patients visiting emergency departments in Ontario and Alberta, Canada, from Apr. 1, 2011, to Mar. 31, 2016. We identified people 18 years or older with frequent emergency department use (top 10% of emergency department use) in fiscal year 2015/16, using the Dynamic Cohort from the Canadian Institute of Health Information. We then organized them into subgroups based on the number of years (1 to 5) in which they met the threshold for frequen

SUBMITTER: Moe J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8929439 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature