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KMID : 0379719990130020070
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Journal of Korean Community Health Nursing Academic Society
1999 Volume.13 No. 2 p.70 ~ p.83
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A study on the Accidental Patients in Emergency Room
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Abstract
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This study was designed to evaluate the prevalence and significant features of accidental patients and to evaluate the degree of satisfaction on emergency care who visited emergency room.
The subject of this study was a total of 243 accidental patients and 249 patients with disease visiting emergency room of 4 university hospitals in Seoul.
The data was collected from questionnaire during the period of January to february 1999.
The results were summarized as follows.
1. Distribution of the general characteristics (age, sex, educational status, marrital status and job) in the accidental patients were significantly different from that of the control group. The most common group of age was 20-30 years of age and males predominated over female.
2. ① Fourty two % of accidental patients arrived within 30 mins.
② Fifty seven % of patients was first-aided one.
③ An ambulance was the most frequently used transportation.
④ The time interval from arrival to initial emergency care was 10 mins.
⑤ Admission rates of the patients after treatment was 72.0%.
⑥ Time interval from arrival to completion was 3-4 hours.
3. The Mean score of the accidental patents´ degree of satisfaction on emergency services was 3.26±0.64 which was not significantly different from that of contol group.
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