New Findings from King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences Update Understanding of Chronic Disease (Seventy-two-hour emergency…

New Findings from King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences Update Understanding of Chronic Disease (Seventy-two-hour emergency department revisits among adults with chronic diseases: a Saudi Arabian study)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Investigators publish new report on Disease Attributes - Chronic Disease. According to news reporting originating from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by VerticalNews correspondents, research stated, "Despite the increase in adult emergency department (ED) utilization in Saudi Arabia, no studies have evaluated the 72-hour revisits. This study estimates the rate of 72-hour ED revisits and identifies its reasons and predictive factors among adults with chronic diseases."

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, "A hospital-based retrospective study that included 24,206 ED discharges for adults with chronic diseases at the adult ED of King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh between September 13, 2015 and July 29, 2017 was performed. We extracted data on demographic information, reasons for ED visits/revisits, health insurance coverage, weekend ED arrival, and mortality. A sample of 24,206 ED discharges for 19,697 adults with at least one chronic disease was included in the analysis. The rate of 72-hour revisits in this study population was high: 3,144/24,206 (13%) had the first revisit and 319/3,144 (10.1%) had the second ED revisit within 72 hours. Diseases of the circulatory (19%) and genitourinary (15.8%) systems were the major reasons for the first ED revisit. The adjusted relative rate (aRR) of 72-hour ED revisits was higher in adults with chronic diseases and aged >= 60 years (aRR=1.360, 95% CI: 1.41 1.83; P=0.001), patients of female gender (aRR=1.24, 95% CI: 1.09 1.41; P=0.001), patients with health insurance coverage (aRR=4.23, 95% CI: 2.60-6.90; P=0.001), patients arriving to ED on a weekend (aRR=2.13, 95% Cl: 1.034.41; P=0.041), and new patients (aRR=1.47, 95% CI: 1.25-1.73; P=0.001). The rate of 72-hour revisits is high among adults with chronic diseases. Advancing age, female gender, health insurance coverage, weekend ED arrival, and new patients are the important predictive factors of the high rate of 72-hour revisits."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Continuous quality assessment and monitoring of factors related to patients are needed to reduce the frequency of early ED revisits after discharge."

For more information on this research see: Seventy-two-hour emergency department revisits among adults with chronic diseases: a Saudi Arabian study. Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2018;14():1423-1427. Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management can be contacted at: Dove Medical Press Ltd, PO Box 300-008, Albany, Auckland 0752, New Zealand.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting A.E. Ahmed, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz Univ Hlth Sci, Natl Guard Hlth Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Additional authors for this research include D.A. AlBuraikan, H.R. Almazroa, M.N. Alrajhi, B.I. ALMuqbil, M.A. Albaijan, M.A. Alsalamah and H. Al-Jandali.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.2147/TCRM.S168763. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Asia, Health and Medicine, Disease Attributes, Gender and Health, Health Insurance, Chronic Disease, Women's Health, Gender Health, Epidemiology, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences.

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