Table 5.
N (%) | |
---|---|
Emergency department (ED) or inpatient (IP)a | |
ED | 4322 (57.4) |
Admitting service | 2168 (28.8) |
Outside hospital transfer | 595 (7.9) |
Request from another hospital service (not ED) | 423 (5.6) |
Poison Center | 22 (0.3) |
Primary care provider or other | 4 (0.1) |
Self-referral | 2 (0.0) |
ED/IP total | 7536 (100) |
Outpatient (OP)/clinic/office consultationb | |
Self-referral | 260 (45.0) |
Primary care provider or other OP physician | 247 (42.7) |
Employer/independent medical eval | 29 (5.0) |
Poison Center | 24 (4.2) |
ED | 13 (2.3) |
Admitting service | 3 (0.5) |
Request from another hospital service (not ED) | 2 (0.4) |
Outpatient total | 578 (100) |
Not recorded outpatient or inpatient | 1 (0.0) |
aPercentage based on the total number of cases (N = 7536) seen by a medical toxicologist as consultant (ED or IP) or as attending (IP)
bPercentage based on the total number of cases (N = 578) seen by a medical toxicologist as outpatient, clinic visit, or office consultation