5289 pediatric age group patients in the emergency room in E.W.U. Hospital du-ring ring 3 years from Jan. 1980 to Dec. 1982.
The results were obtained as follow
´ 1) Among the patients visiting the emergency room, the patients under the 15 years of age were 29.1% of total emergency patients.
2) The male to female ratio was 1.7 : 1.
3) Monthly distribution of patients showed progressive increasing from May to October, and the high incidence In October.
4) Most frequent diseases was respiratory disease.(21.8%), followed by accident (18.3%), gastrointestinal disease (16.5%) and neurologic disease (9.8%) .
5) In the respiratory disease, the most frequent disease was upper respiratory infection(59.3%),followed by pneumonia(10.2%)and bronchiolitis(5.3%). In the accident, the most frequent disease was trauma ( 52.4%) . In the gastrointestinal disease, the most frequent disease was gastroenteritis ( 84:6 %) . In the neurologic disease, the most frequent disease was febrile convulsion (43.9%). In the neonatal disease, the most frequent disease was neonatal hyperbilirubinemia(24.8%).
6) Admission rate through emergency room was 32%.
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