Table 3.
Emergency Department Disposition for Those Who Received a Prescription for an Epinephrine Auto-Injector Versus Those Who Did Not, Among Medicaid Patients Presenting With Anaphylaxis at the Pediatric Emergency Departments of Hospital 1 and Hospital 2a.
| Hospital 1 |
Hospital 2 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Anaphylaxis Patients (n = 62) | Patients Receiving Rx (n = 42) | Patients Not Receiving Rx (n = 20) | All Anaphylaxis Patients (n = 24) | Patients Receiving Rx (n = 13) | Patients Not Receiving Rx (n = 11) | |
| Allergist referral | ||||||
| No | 52 (84%) | 34 (81%) | 18 (90%) | 19 (79%) | 12 (92%) | 7 (64%) |
| Yes | 10 (16%) | 8 (19%) | 2 (10%) | 5 (21%) | 1 (8%) | 4 (36%) |
| Primary care follow-up recommended | ||||||
| No | 10 (16%) | 4 (10%) | 6 (30%) | 5 (21%) | 2 (15%) | 3 (27%) |
| Yes | 52 (84%) | 38 (90%) | 14 (70%) | 19 (79%) | 11 (85%) | 8 (73%) |
| Education on anaphylaxis documented | ||||||
| No | 3 (5%) | 1 (2%) | 2 (10%) | 9 (38%) | 3 (23%) | 6 (55%) |
| Yes | 59 (95%) | 41 (98%) | 18 (90%) | 15 (62%) | 10 (77%) | 5 (45%) |
a
Significance determined by Student’s t or Fisher’s exact test.