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KMID : 1035620150030050334
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Allergy Asthma & Respiratory Disease
2015 Volume.3 No. 5 p.334 ~ p.340
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Clinical characteristics of patients with acute bronchiolitis who visited 146 Emergency Department in Korea in 2012
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노의정:Roh Eui-Jung
원연경:Won Youn-Kyung/이미희:Lee Mi-Hee/정은희:Chung Eun-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was aimed to investigate the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the patients with acute bronchiolitis who visited in 146 Emergency Departments (EDs) in Korea in 2012.
Methods: We used the NEDIS (National Emergency Department Information System) database to obtain all children with acute bronchiolitis who visited ED under the age of 3 between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012.
Results: Totally 18,313 children with acute bronchiolitis were enrolled at this study. The male to female ratio was 1.55:1 and mean age was 10 months. The peak proportion was 17.3% in November during the whole year. The most common chief complaints were fever (38.5%), cough (37.4%), dyspnea (9.5%), gastrointestinal symptom (6.7%), and wheezing (2.5%). The most common accompanying disease was pneumonia (13.3%). The rate of hospital admission and intensive care unit admission were 34.5% and 0.3%, respectively. A predictor for admission via ED was respiratory difficulty.
Conclusion: These data expand our understanding of clinical characteristics of patients with acute bronchiolitis who visited all ED in Korea in 2012.
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KEYWORD
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Bronchiolitis, Emergency Department, Admission
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