ECHO: The Western Australian Emergency Care Hospitalisation and Outcome Linked Data Project

Sprivulis, Peter; Silva, Julie-Ann Da; Jacobs, Ian; Jelinek, George A; Swift, R. S.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-842x.2006.tb00103.x

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“…EDIS and the Mortality Database records were linked by the Western Australian Data Linkage Unit by probabilistic matching. This linkage has been described previously 4 . Data extraction and handling were performed with SPSS, version 12.0 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, Ill, USA).…”

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Characteristics and outcomes of patients who “did not wait” after attending Perth public hospital emergency departments, 2000–2003

Hall

Jelinek

2007

Medical Journal of Australia

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Objective: To determine characteristics and outcomes of patients who did not wait to see a doctor in emergency departments (EDs). Design and setting: Population‐based outcome study using probabilistically linked ED and Western Australian death records, with ED records from all seven Perth public hospitals that have EDs from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2003. Main outcome measures: Rates of “did not wait” (DNW) presentations, overall and for individual hospitals; characteristics of DNW patients; mortality rates among DNW patients at 2, 7 and 30 days. Results: DNW rates varied from 2.6% to 6.3% (average, 4.1%) and were generally lower in tertiary teaching hospitals. DNW patients had conditions of lower urgency, predominantly Australasian Triage Scale category 4 (67.1%) and 5 (23.4%). The DNW rates in these categories were 5.8% and 10.6%, respectively (P < 0.001). Patients referred by health care providers had lower DNW rates (0.5%; P < 0.001). DNW patients were more frequently male (4.4% v 3.8%; P < 0.001), and young to middle‐aged adults (15–44 years; 5.8%; P < 0.001). Patients with a higher than average DNW rate were more likely to arrive by private transport (5.0%; P < 0.001) or with police (5.8%; P < 0.001), re‐present for review (8.6%; P < 0.001) or have social or behavioural problems (7.7%; P < 0.001). Most patients (91.9%) did not wait on only one occasion. The 30‐day mortality rate among DNW patients was significantly lower than for patients seen by a doctor and discharged (0.14 v 0.20%; P = 0.026), and for all patients seen in the ED (1.28%; P < 0.001). Conclusions: Patients who did not wait for medical assessment in Perth EDs had conditions of lower acuity and had lower mortality rates than those who waited for assessment.

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Characteristics and outcomes of patients who “did not wait” after attending Perth public hospital emergency departments, 2000–2003

Hall

Jelinek

2007

Medical Journal of Australia

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“…EDIS [15], an ED patient-tracking system that contains patient demographic and disposition data, was used to identify all adult patients discharged from the SCGH ED between 1 January, 2008 and 31 October, 2009 with a discharge diagnosis of MI, the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Problems, 10 th Revision, Australian Modification [16] code I21.9 (including both STEMI [ST segment elevated MI] and NSTEMI [Non STEMI]). These data were linked to the SJA-WA database, [17] which contains data from the emergency call and clinical data collected by the paramedics, to form the study cohort, which was then linked to the WA Death Register [18] by probabilistic matching using Linkagewiz [19]. Patients were assumed to be alive at 1 September 2011 if there was no record of their death.…”

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Characteristics and Outcomes of MI Patients with and without Chest Pain: A Cohort Study

Coventry

Bremner

Williams

et al. 2015

Heart, Lung and Circulation

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“…Following this, if the admission time in the morbidity record was equal to or after the ED presentation time and within 2 h of the ED departure time we accepted the records as relating to the same episode. This methodology has previously been published 7,8 …”

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Emergency department diagnosis of pulmonary embolism is associated with significantly reduced mortality: A linked data population study

Jelinek

Ingarfield

Mountain

et al. 2009

Emerg Medicine Australasia

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ECHO: The Western Australian Emergency Care Hospitalisation and Outcome Linked Data Project

Cited by 19 publications

References 20 publications

Characteristics and outcomes of patients who “did not wait” after attending Perth public hospital emergency departments, 2000–2003

Characteristics and outcomes of patients who “did not wait” after attending Perth public hospital emergency departments, 2000–2003

Characteristics and Outcomes of MI Patients with and without Chest Pain: A Cohort Study

Emergency department diagnosis of pulmonary embolism is associated with significantly reduced mortality: A linked data population study

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