The New Zealand medical journal · 2019
Analysis of presenting symptoms and diagnoses made at Middlemore Hospital: an audit carried out between Monday 1 August and Sunday 7 August 2016.
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Lock Alistair, Wright Matt
Аннотация
AIMS: Perform an audit which identifies the breadth and commonality of presenting complaints and diagnoses presenting to Middlemore Hospital over a one-week period in August 2016.
METHODS: Two thousand and eleven patients attended Middlemore Hospital over one week in winter 2016, with 53 patients excluded. Information from the remaining 1,958 patient discharge summaries were obtained and made confidential for coding purposes.
RESULTS: Of 1,958 patients, there were 78 different presenting complaints, with 444 individual final diagnoses. The five most common complaints were cough (n=158, 8.1%), chest pain (n=133, 6.8%), shortness of breath (n=92, 4.7%), finger pain (n=69, 3.5%) and collapse (n=59, 3.0%). Viral illness (n=84, 4.3%), pneumonia (n=83, 4.3%) and laceration/incised wound (n=75, 3.8%) were the three most common diagnoses. With hindsight, only 2 of the 25 most common diagnoses could be classified as severe conditions-often associated with high morbidity or mortality.
CONCLUSIONS: Numerous patients are diagnosed with mild conditions after work-up in the emergency department, however a broad diagnostic approach is required by junior clinicians given the possibility of more worrying diagnoses. An analysis of specific markers used by junior clinicians to aid differential diagnosis shows that not all signs and symptoms are required to make common diagnoses. For example, the absence of a documented fever, raised CRP or both, does not rule out significant infection in the case of pneumonia, urinary tract infection and cellulitis. This audit contributes to understanding the case-mix within the emergency department at Middlemore Hospital and allows for tailoring of service delivery and education of junior clinicians.
METHODS: Two thousand and eleven patients attended Middlemore Hospital over one week in winter 2016, with 53 patients excluded. Information from the remaining 1,958 patient discharge summaries were obtained and made confidential for coding purposes.
RESULTS: Of 1,958 patients, there were 78 different presenting complaints, with 444 individual final diagnoses. The five most common complaints were cough (n=158, 8.1%), chest pain (n=133, 6.8%), shortness of breath (n=92, 4.7%), finger pain (n=69, 3.5%) and collapse (n=59, 3.0%). Viral illness (n=84, 4.3%), pneumonia (n=83, 4.3%) and laceration/incised wound (n=75, 3.8%) were the three most common diagnoses. With hindsight, only 2 of the 25 most common diagnoses could be classified as severe conditions-often associated with high morbidity or mortality.
CONCLUSIONS: Numerous patients are diagnosed with mild conditions after work-up in the emergency department, however a broad diagnostic approach is required by junior clinicians given the possibility of more worrying diagnoses. An analysis of specific markers used by junior clinicians to aid differential diagnosis shows that not all signs and symptoms are required to make common diagnoses. For example, the absence of a documented fever, raised CRP or both, does not rule out significant infection in the case of pneumonia, urinary tract infection and cellulitis. This audit contributes to understanding the case-mix within the emergency department at Middlemore Hospital and allows for tailoring of service delivery and education of junior clinicians.