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KMID : 0363420160300010045
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Journal of Korean Oriental Pediatrics
2016 Volume.30 No. 1 p.45 ~ p.58
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A Study on the Recent Trend of Chief Complaint of Korean Pediatric and Adolescent Outpatients
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Lee Eun-Ju
Lee Bo-Ram
Lee Ji-Hong
Chang Gyu-Tae
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study is to investigate about chief complaints of Korean pediatrics and adolescent outpatients in the ○○ university hospital for their recent trend.
Methods: The study was composed of 4,677 new patients aged between 1 month and 20 years who had been visited
pediatrics in ○○ university hospital from 2012 January to 2015 December.
Results: 1. Among those patients, majority was early childhood as 51.4%, followed by early childhood, late childhood,
infancy, and adolescence. 2. Chief complaints in this population have been recorded in the fall the most as 29.6%, but the distribution was inconsistent. 3. To categorize, digestive-related chief complaints were the highest as 30.6%, followed by respiratory, supplemental use, growth, psychiatrics. Respiratory-related chief complaints increased dramatically in the fall.
4. In infancy and early childhood, digestive/respiratory complaints were common, whereas, growth complaints were common in late childhood and adolescence. 5. Digestive/respiratory complaints have been over 50% out of all chief complaints annually. Psychiatric and growth-related complaints have been trending up, whereas, supplemental/skin complaints have decreased every year. 6. Specifically, anorexia were the most common in digestive complaints, and rhinitis/sinusitis were top among respiratory complaints. Precocious puberty and developmental disability increased every year.
Conclusions: The most common chief complaints were digestive and respiratory-related, and precocious puberty and growth issues have been trending up lately. Based on this result, more studies that targets precocious puberty and growth
problems are needed.
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KEYWORD
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Chief complaints, Systemic division, Korean pediatrics, Korean adolescent, Korean medicine hospital, Outpatient
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