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Analysis of patient revisits to the emergency department

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    In contrast, other studies reported the mortality rate of patients with revisit-admission was relatively high, ranging from 4.1% to 10% [6,7,16]. Accordingly, hospital admission was shown to be a critical indicator of the severity of disease and represents the most serious adverse event in patients discharged from the ED [1–3,25]. The present study, which investigated patients with ED revisits and ICU admissions, explored the clinical implications of an even more differentiating parameter and showed a mortality of up to 27% in this setting.

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This study was sponsored by Veterans General Hospital-National Tsin Hwa University Joint Research Program-ROC (VGHTH-80-039-1).

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