Factors associated with Emergency Department revisits and hospitalization following discharged acute asthma exarcerbation

The objectives were to identify factors associated with early revisit of adult patients with acute asthma exarcebation discharged from the Emergency Department (ED). It was a retrospective cohort study with patients aged 12 years or more within a period of 1 month and who were treated for acute asth...

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Main Authors:	Nik Azlan Nik Muhamad, Kwong, LJ
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Fakulti Perubatan, UKM 2016
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9784/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9784/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9784/1/4._NikMuhammad_et_al.pdf

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spelling	ukm-97842016-12-14T06:50:50Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9784/ Factors associated with Emergency Department revisits and hospitalization following discharged acute asthma exarcerbation Nik Azlan Nik Muhamad, Kwong, LJ The objectives were to identify factors associated with early revisit of adult patients with acute asthma exarcebation discharged from the Emergency Department (ED). It was a retrospective cohort study with patients aged 12 years or more within a period of 1 month and who were treated for acute asthma and discharged from the ED of Sarawak General Hospital. A total of 397 patients fulfilled sampling criteria and out of this number, 13.9% had revisit to the ED within 2 weeks. In all of these revisit cases, 9.1% were actually admitted. Prescription rate of oral corticosteroid was found to be low (24.9%) and abscond rate was high (25.1%). Patients who absconded from the ED and their concurrent infection were associated with early ED revisit. Fakulti Perubatan, UKM 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9784/1/4._NikMuhammad_et_al.pdf Nik Azlan Nik Muhamad, and Kwong, LJ (2016) Factors associated with Emergency Department revisits and hospitalization following discharged acute asthma exarcerbation. Medicine & Health, 11 (1). pp. 22-28. ISSN 1823-2140 http://www.medicineandhealthukm.com/toc/11/1
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description	The objectives were to identify factors associated with early revisit of adult patients with acute asthma exarcebation discharged from the Emergency Department (ED). It was a retrospective cohort study with patients aged 12 years or more within a period of 1 month and who were treated for acute asthma and discharged from the ED of Sarawak General Hospital. A total of 397 patients fulfilled sampling criteria and out of this number, 13.9% had revisit to the ED within 2 weeks. In all of these revisit cases, 9.1% were actually admitted. Prescription rate of oral corticosteroid was found to be low (24.9%) and abscond rate was high (25.1%). Patients who absconded from the ED and their concurrent infection were associated with early ED revisit.
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author	Nik Azlan Nik Muhamad, Kwong, LJ
spellingShingle	Nik Azlan Nik Muhamad, Kwong, LJ Factors associated with Emergency Department revisits and hospitalization following discharged acute asthma exarcerbation
author_facet	Nik Azlan Nik Muhamad, Kwong, LJ
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title	Factors associated with Emergency Department revisits and hospitalization following discharged acute asthma exarcerbation
title_short	Factors associated with Emergency Department revisits and hospitalization following discharged acute asthma exarcerbation
title_full	Factors associated with Emergency Department revisits and hospitalization following discharged acute asthma exarcerbation
title_fullStr	Factors associated with Emergency Department revisits and hospitalization following discharged acute asthma exarcerbation
title_full_unstemmed	Factors associated with Emergency Department revisits and hospitalization following discharged acute asthma exarcerbation
title_sort	factors associated with emergency department revisits and hospitalization following discharged acute asthma exarcerbation
publisher	Fakulti Perubatan, UKM
publishDate	2016
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9784/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9784/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9784/1/4._NikMuhammad_et_al.pdf
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Factors associated with Emergency Department revisits and hospitalization following discharged acute asthma exarcerbation

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