Table 3.
Presentation of the recurrent ED patients in the Emergency Department.
| All Recurrent ED Visits N = 1921 |
Frequent ED Visits N = 1016 |
Repeated ED Visits N = 905 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Number ED visits | 4 (4–5) | 4 (4–5) | 5 (4–6) |
| Triage by the emergency severity index (ESI), n (%) | |||
| ESI 1 | 16 (0.8%) | 11 (1.1%) | 5 (0.6%) |
| ESI 2 | 148 (7.7%) | 75 (7.4%) | 73 (8.0%) |
| ESI 3 | 1346 (70.1%) | 680 (66.9%) | 666 (73.6%) |
| ESI 4/5 | 411 (21.4%) | 250 (24.6%) | 161 (17.8%) |
| Number of ED presentations from, | |||
| n (%): | |||
| 8 am–5 pm | 955 (49.7%) | 525 (51.7%) | 430 (47.5%) |
| 5 pm–23 pm | 496 (25.8%) | 254 (25.0%) | 242 (26.7%) |
| 11 pm–8 am | 470 (24.5%) | 237 (23.3%) | 233 (25.8%) |
| Number of self-admittances | 4 (3–5) | 4 (3–4) | 4 (3–5) |
| Number of admittances by paramedics | 0 (0–2) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–2) |
| Number of emergency allocations by external doctors | 1 (0–2) | 1 (0–2) | 1 (0–2) |
ED = Emergency Department; ESI = Emergency Severity Index; Results were presented as median (25th–75th percentile).