Table 2.
Discharge from the Emergency Department
| Paper | N | Mean Length of Stay (hours) | ED returns N | Readmissions N | Recurrence N (%) | LOE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LeMasne 1999 | 54 (ED) 42 (IP) |
- 47 |
- | - | 8 (15) 4 (10) |
3 |
| Bajaj 2003 | 51 (ED) 27 (IP) |
7.2 22.7 |
13 | 5 | 4 (8) 4 (15) |
3 |
| Al-Jazaeri 2006 | 80 (IP) | 38.4 | - | - | 6 (8) 5* (6) |
4 |
| Herwig 2009 | 6 (ED) 40 (IP) |
4.6 25.6 |
- | - | 0 (0) 3 (8) |
4 |
| Whitehouse 2010 | 48 (ED) 138 (IP) |
- 38.4 |
4 10 |
1 2 |
4 (4) 10 (7) |
3 |
| Gilmore 2011 | 46 (ED) 10 (IP) |
7 33.7 |
2 | 2 | 7 (13) 0 (0) | 4 |
| Chien 2013 | 8 (ED) 90 (IP) |
7.1 35.2 |
- | - | 0 (0) 7 (8) |
4 |
| Beres 2014 | 239 (ED) 218 (IP) |
7.2 42.6 |
- | - | 21 (9) 28 (9) |
3 |
| Raval 2015 | 30 (ED) 16 (IP) |
6.8 - |
7 1 |
- | 1 (3) 0 (0) |
3 |
| Kwon 2017 | 45 (ED) 52 (IP) |
4.6 25.6 |
- | - | 3 (7) 5 (10) |
3 |
| Mallicotte 2017 | 51 (ED) 79 (IP) |
4.9 31.7 |
- | 1 3 |
(15) (14) |
3 |
| Okumus 2018 | 58 (ED) | 6.2 | 4 | 0 | 4 (7) |
4 |
ED – Emergency Department
IP – Inpatient
LOE – Level of Evidence
*
After hospital discharge