A study of disease pattern in patients presenting in the emergency department of a tertiary hospital catering to industrial workers

Abstract

Emergency department (in a health care facility) is a section of an institution that is staffed and equipped to provide rapid and varied emergency care, especially for those who are stricken with sudden and acute illness or who are the victims of severe trauma. This study analyzed the disease pattern of patients presenting to the emergency department of a tertiary care insurance based hospital in Delhi. The results showed maximum patients attended were under the Medicine and Surgery discipline. A large proportion of these patients were non emergency cases that could have been managed in the Outpatient Department (OPD). As the cause of overcrowding of the hospital emergency department was attributed to the number of people presenting to the emergency department with non emergent problems it discusses the steps that can be taken to better channelize the use of emergency medical services.

Audit of surgical services in a teaching hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

“…Trauma related major neurosurgical (often head injuries) and orthopedic (such as long bone fracture) cases constitute 11.4%. The finding is almost similar to a tertiary hospital in Delhi where major orthopedic cases alone constitute 11.64% [8].…”

Patient Waiting Time in Emergency Department of a Tertiary Level Hospital

“…In this study majority of the service receivers 101(57.7%) were transferred to IPD and 23(23.23%) were transferred to the Medicine of IPD from ED. In a study by Jitesh Dhingra et al, found that, Most of the Patients 56.08% were transferred to the Medicine of IPD from ED [11]. Opinion regarding overall management, 45.7% was satisfied.…”