Patients visited to emergency room of a general hospital for one year were analyzed to evaluate the role of family physicians in emergency room, ant the content of primary care.
The results were as follows ;
1. Among total 13,367 patients, the male and femele rate was 1.5:1 and the 29-29 year old group was 30.9%, the highest.
2. The seasonal distribution of the patients who visited emergency room highest in summer(29.6%).
3. The highest percentage of patients(21.8%) were seen on sunday.
4. The highest percentage of patients(23.5%) were seen from 8 P.M. to 12 P.M.
5. The problem, classifed by ICHPPC-2, why the patient visited the emergency room were in decreasing order as follows, accidents, poisonings and violence.
6. The percentage of patients was returning home, by department, who were seen at the emergency room, was highest in internal medicine.
7. In the comparison of hospitalizatiln of emergency room patients, by department, the highest(32.7%) was that of orthopedic surgery.
8. In management of patients, 77.0% of patients was returning home immediately after treatment, 22.3% was hospitalized 0.6% was dead on arrival and 0.1% of patients died during treatment procedure.
