Usage Patterns and Severity Classification of Elderly Patients in a Public Hospital Emergency Department

• 발행기관: 한국응용과학기술학회 (구.한국유화학회)
• 저자명: Yon-Hee Seo Sun-Og Lim
• 간행물 정보: 『한국응용과학기술학회지』제41권 제3호, 673~684쪽, 전체 12쪽
• 주제분류: 공학 > 화학공학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2024.06.30

국문 초록

This study aims to enhance the accuracy of severity classification by examining the usage patterns and characteristics of emergency department visits. It focuses on adult and elderly patients who visited a public hospital in Seoul. This descriptive study retrospectively reviewed the electronic medical records of patients who visited the emergency department of a public hospital between November and December 2023. The total number of participants was 1,033, with 46.4% (n=479) being elderly and 53.6% (n=554) being adults. The chief complaints of the participants were as follows: for the elderly, nervous system symptoms at 8.2% (n=85) and digestive symptoms at 7.5% (n=77) were the most common, while for adults, gastrointestinal symptoms at 11.0% (n=114) and trauma at 8.6% (n=89) were more prevalent. In the case of the elderly, patients classified as urgent accounted for the highest percentage at 23.9% (n=247), while for adults, non-emergency were more prevalent at 32.2% (n=333). The initial severity classification error rate for elderly patients in the urgent was 3.8%, indicating that the suitability of KTAS for elderly patients with high severity was low. To minimize severity classification errors and enhance KTAS accuracy, it's essential to address its current limitation of only classifying adults and children separately by developing a KTAS classification system that reflects the diverse characteristics of elderly patients.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Research methods

3. Results

4. Discussion

5. Conclusions

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키워드

Aged Emergency Department Triage Public Hospital Korean Triage and Acuity Scale (KTAS)