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Patients leaving the emergency department without being seen by a physician: a retrospective database analysis

Published inSchweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, vol. 143, w13889
Publication date2013
Abstract

To describe characteristics of patients leaving the emergency department (ED) before being seen by a physician and to identify factors associated with a greater risk of leaving the ED too early.

Keywords
  • Adult
  • Age Distribution
  • Aged
  • Databases, Factual
  • Emergency Service, Hospital/statistics & numerical data
  • Female
  • Hospitals, Teaching/statistics & numerical data
  • Hospitals, Urban/statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nervous System Diseases/epidemiology
  • Odds Ratio
  • Patient Dropouts/statistics & numerical data
  • Religion
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Risk Factors
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Skin Diseases/epidemiology
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Substance-Related Disorders/epidemiology
  • Switzerland/epidemiology
  • Time Factors
  • Triage/statistics & numerical data
  • Unemployment/statistics & numerical data
Citation (ISO format)
GROSGURIN, Olivier et al. Patients leaving the emergency department without being seen by a physician: a retrospective database analysis. In: Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, 2013, vol. 143, p. w13889. doi: 10.4414/smw.2013.13889
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