Table 2.
Description of the perceived emergency cases.
| Chief complaint | Number | Perceived severity‡ | Number of patients hospitalized | Number of hospitalized patients who had surgery | Average number of nights spent in hospital | Average number of days spent in bed outside hospital (all cases) | Number of patients with decreased state of health after the event | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| |||||||||
| Not very serious | Very serious | Life threatening | |||||||
| Fever | 21 | 6 | 11 | 4† | 4 | 1 | 10.2 | 4.3 | |
| Traumatic injury | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2.3 | 21.3 | 4 |
| Abdominal pain | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11.2 | 1 | |
| Obstetrical complaint | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | ||
| Chest pain | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1* | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |
| Vomiting and/or diarrhea | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Convulsions/seizure | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 1 | ||||
| Eye or ENT problem | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Weakness | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| Vaginal bleeding, discharge, or breast complaint | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | |||
| Upper or lower extremity complaint | 1 | no data | 8 | ||||||
| Psychiatric/social problem | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| Neurologic complaint | 1 | 1 | no data | 1 | |||||
| Ingestion (accidental or intentional) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||||
| Genitourinary problem | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 60 | ||||
| Bites (human or animal) | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
|
| |||||||||
| Total # (%) | 55 | 12 (22.2%) | 31 (57.4%) | 11 (20.4%) | 16 (29.6%**) | 4 (25%) | 4.94 | 7.2** | - |
Empty cells = 0;
‡
data on one case missing;
†
one patient had ambulatory surgery;
*
person died before any action could be taken, excluded in the further presentation;
**
the person who died is excluded from this calculation.