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ArticleEmergency medicine international2020

Factors Affecting Mortality in Patients Admitted to the Hospital by Emergency Physicians despite Disagreement with Other Specialties.

Engin Ozakin, Arif Alper Cevik, Filiz Baloglu Kaya, Nurdan Acar, Fikri M Abu-Zidan

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Article in Emergency medicine international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Engin OzakinDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Eskişehir, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4301-5440
Arif Alper CevikDepartments of Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine Section, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6691-6298
Filiz Baloglu KayaDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Eskişehir, Turkey.
Nurdan AcarDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Eskişehir, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3532-1803
Fikri M Abu-ZidanDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE.
Eskişehir Osmangazi University · TRUnited Arab Emirates University · AE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundEmergency physicians (EPs) face critical admission decisions, and their judgments are questioned in some developing systems. This study aims to define the factors affecting mortality in patients admitted to the hospital by EPs against in-service departments' decision and evaluate EPs' admission diagnosis with final discharge diagnosis.

methodsThis is a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data of ten consecutive years (2008-2017) of an emergency department of a university medical center. Adult patients (≥18 years-old) who were admitted to the hospital by EPs against in-service departments' decision were enrolled in the study. Significant factors affecting mortality were defined by the backward logistic regression model.

results369 consecutive patients were studied, and 195 (52.8%) were males. The mean (SD) age was 65.5 (17.3) years. The logistic regression model showed that significant factors affecting mortality were intubation (

conclusionsIntubation, low systolic blood pressure on presentation, increased age, and having a comorbidity increased the mortality. EPs admission diagnoses were highly correlated with the final diagnosis. EPs make difficult admission decisions with high accuracy, if needed.

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