ArticleBMC pediatrics2018
Emergency department 72-hour revisits among children with chronic diseases: a Saudi Arabian study.
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- Seventy-Two-Hour Emergency Department Revisits in the Pediatric Population at King Abdullah Specialist Children's Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A Morbidity Analysis.International journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Analyzing the Reasons and Hospital Admission Rates of 72-Hour Emergency Department Revisits.Emergency medicine international · 2025Article
- Exploring factors influencing time from dispatch to unit availability according to the transport decision in the pre-hospital setting: an exploratory study.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Article
- A Comparison of Emergency Department Revisit Rates of Pediatric Patients between Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Periods.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Characteristics and outcomes of patients with an unscheduled return visit within 72 hours to the Paediatric Emergency Centre at a Private Tertiary Referral Hospital in Kenya.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2021Article
- Factors influencing occurrence of peritonitis in Saudi children on peritoneal dialysis.BMC pediatrics · 2020Article
- Risk Assessment of Repeated Suicide Attempts Among Youth in Saudi Arabia.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2020Article
- Recurrence rate of scabies in patients 14 years or older in Saudi Arabia.Saudi medical journal · 2019Article
- Rate and factors for scabies recurrence in children in Saudi Arabia: a retrospective study.BMC pediatrics · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundEmergency Department (ED) revisits have often been used as an indicator of medical care quality. This study aimed to quantify the frequency of ED revisits within 72 h of discharge and identify its factors among children with chronic diseases.
methodsWe designed a retrospective cohort study of children with at least one chronic disease who were also under 18 years of age and had attended and were discharged from the ED at King Abdullah Specialist Children's Hospital (KASCH-RD), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between April 19, 2015 and July 29, 2017. The outcome measure was the frequency of ED revisits during a period of 72 h after discharge.
resultsThe study included 11,057 ED discharges of children with at least one chronic disease. Their revisit rate was 1211 (11%), with 83 (6.9%) having had a second ED revisit within 72 h of ED discharge. According to ICD-10 codes, the most common causes of ED revisits were respiratory, digestive, genitourinary, symptoms, and external causes. Factors of frequent ED revisits within 72 h were young age, institutional health insurance coverage, year of new health information system (2015), external causes, and genitourinary.
conclusionThe rate of 72-h ED revisits after discharge of children with chronic diseases treated at KASCH-RD was relatively high, and was associated with young age, institutional health insurance coverage, year of a new health information system implementation, and external causes of ED visit. These study findings amplify the need for intervention to reduce the rate of early ED revisits among children with chronic diseases.
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