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common emergency department patient presentations
Metropolitan emergency department adult presentations
top ED triage symptom codes
- abdominal pain = 4.7%
- other = 4.1%
- chest pain = 4%
- shortness of breath = 3.5%
- laceration = 3.2%
- generally unwell = 2.7%
- antepartum bleeding = 2.7%
- injury leg or foot = 2.7%
- nausea or vomiting = 2.7%
- headache = 2.1%
- urinary complaint = 1.9%
- dizzy / light headed = 1.8%
- collapse / fall = 1.7%
- other gynae = 1.7%
- injury digits = 1.6%
- eye problems = 1.5%
- injury forearm or wrist = 1.5%
- injury lower back = 1.5%
- RIF pain = 1.4%
top ED diagnoses as coded
- abdominal pain - no final diagnosis, or gastritis, epigastric pain but excl. biliary, pancreatic, appendicitis or pelvic = 5.3%
- open wounds = 4.8%
- fractures = 4.5%
- sprain or strain = 4.5%
- chest pain excl. probable or actual angina/ACS but including GOR = 3.8%
- miscarriage or ectopic related = 3.6%
- viral infection including influenza but excl. LRTI or COPD or asthma = 2.4%
- gynaecologic - menorrhagia, pelvic pain but excl. miscarriage or ectopics = 2.35%
- gastroenteritis, colitis or nausea/vomiting, excl. gastritis or hyperemesis gravidarum = 2.2%
- UTI or pyelonephritis = 2.2%
- depression or suicidal ideation or overdose excl. simple ethanol intoxication = 2.1%
- muscle pain or limb pain (presumably non-traumatic, many may be ?DVT for exclusion) = 2.1%
- other soft tissue injuries eg. bruising = 1.8%
- headache or migraine = 1.65%
- pneumonia or LRTI excl. asthma or COPD = 1.6%
- collapse, dizziness or syncope excl. vertigo = 1.6%
- back pain or sciatica = 1.5%
- cellulitis = 1.5%
- renal colic = 1.3%
- biliary or pancreatic disease = 1.2%
- rash or urticaria = 1.1%
- foreign body = 1.1%
- debility, dementia, acute confusion not coded otherwise = 1.0%
- anxiety or no organic disease evident = 1.1%
- non-traumatic joint pain or arthritis or gout = 0.93%
- psychosis or schizophrenia-related = 0.9%
- asthma excl. COPD = 0.8%
- ano-rectal conditions = 0.8%
- tonsillitis or quinsy or glandular fever excl. pharyngitis = 0.7%
- abscess excl. gynae, dental, anorectal or pilonidal = 0.6%
- appendicitis = 0.6%
- acute coronary syndrome including angina or infarct = 0.6%
- cardiac failure or APO = 0.6%
- simple alcohol intoxication or withdrawal excl. trauma, overdose, suicidal or depression diagnoses = 0.6%
- vertigo or BPV = 0.6%
- constipation = 0.5%
- DVT or superficial thrombophlebitis = 0.5%
- stroke or TIA = 0.5%
- hyperemesis gravidarum = 0.45%
- seizure or epilepsy = 0.45%
- burns = 0.45%
- eye injury excluding FB = 0.44%
- epistaxis = 0.42%
- urinary retention = 0.36%
- hypertension = 0.34%
- non-venomous bites = 0.32%
- atrial fibrillation = 0.31%
- bowel obstruction = 0.24%
- shoulder dislocation = 0.21%
- dental abscess = 0.20%
- diverticulitis = 0.15%
- pulmonary embolus = 0.1%
- source1)
1)
Sunshine Hospital, Melbourne 2008-2009 - sees ~40,000 adults per year but not a major trauma centre
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