Observational studyInternational journal of public health2018
Is the use of emergency departments socially patterned?
Observational study in International journal of public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Mapping the costs and socioeconomic characteristics involved in traumatic brain injuries: a scoping review.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2024Article
- A national population-based study of patients, bystanders and contextual factors associated with resuscitation in witnessed cardiac arrest: insight from the french RéAC registry.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Health disparities of critically ill children according to poverty: the Korean population-based retrospective cohort study.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Variation in accessibility of the population to an Emergency Medical Communication Centre: a multicentre observational study.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2019Observational
- Characteristics of Non-Emergent Visits in Emergency Departments: Profiles and Longitudinal Pattern Changes in Taiwan, 2000-2010.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo analyse the association between patients' socioeconomic position (SEP) and the use of emergency departments (EDs).
methodsThis population-based study included all visits to ED in 2012 by inhabitants of the French Midi-Pyrénées region, recorded by the Regional Emergency Departments Observatory. We compared ED visit rates and the proportion of non-severe visits according to the patients' SEP as assessed by the European Deprivation Index.
resultsWe analysed 496,388 visits. The annual ED visit rate increased with deprivation level: 165.9 [95% CI (164.8-166.9)] visits per 1000 inhabitants among the most advantaged group, compared to 321.9 [95% CI (320.3-323.5)] per 1000 among the most disadvantaged. However, the proportion of non-severe visits was about 14% of the visits, and this proportion did not differ according to SEP.
conclusionsAlthough the study shows a difference of ED visit rates, the probability of a visit being non-severe is not meaningfully different according to SEP. This supports the assumption that ED visit rate variations according to SEP are mainly explained by SEP-related differences in health states rather than SEP-related differences in health behaviours.
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