Volume 27, Issue 141, November 2023

Imam Abdurrahman Alfaisal Hospital referred cases characteristics and outcomes

Khalid Alsunidi¹, Mazi Mohammed Alanazi^2♦, Khalid Ayidh Aljuaydi³, Ahmed Hadi Khormi³, Osama Mohammed bin Bakheet³, Abdullah Mohammed Alamro⁴, Abdulrahman Jameel Bakhsh⁴, Mohannad Saeed Alzahrani³, Areej Manie Alhamdi³, Mohammed Abdullah Alsagoor⁵, Anfal Sulieman Alrehaili⁵

¹Head of Emergency department, Emergency Consultant, First Cluster, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
²Emergency Department, First Cluster, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
³First Cluster, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
⁴Emergency Saudi Board Resident, First cluster, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
⁵Ems services, Imam Abdulrahman Alfaisal Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Emergency Department, First Cluster, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

One of the secondary hospitals in the nation, Imam Abdurrahman Alfaisal Hospital's emergency department was the subject of this retrospective hospital records-based study. It is vital to look at the kind of cases that are referred and how they turn out since there have been some delays with the primary, secondary, or tertiary hospital referral system, which is crucial to the admission process in this hospital. Our study used hospital records data to gather data on many characteristics, including the patient's state, arrival time, interventional time, and end outcome. Frequency, descriptive statistics, chisquare test, fisher exact test, Pearson correlation, relative risk, and odd ratio were used in the statistical study. According to our findings, there is a slight delay in a patient's arrival at the emergency room. However, there was no discernible delay once the patient arrived, and it was discovered that a delay in intervention was associated with a subpar outcome.

Keywords: Referred cases, emergency department, patient arrival

Medical Science, 2023, 27, e377ms3243

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v27i141.e377ms3243

Published: 11 November 2023