• Child Health Nursing Research
• /
• v.7 no.2
• /
• pp.191-202
• /
• 2001

This study was attempted to help in explore new direction about classification of the severity of the pediatric patients visiting emergency center. Data were collected from 276 patients who visited emergency center of E University Hospital during 3 months period from March 1, to May 31,1999. The results were as follows: 1. The degree of severity of the pediatric patients visiting emergency center shown ranged 0-18 and averaged .87. 2. With the respect to the severity of the pediatric patients visiting emergency center, there were statiscally significant difference in patients' visiting time(F=2.607, p=.025), disease classification(F=9.606, p=.000), consciousness level(F=71.499, p=.000), period of symptom manifestation (F=2.262, p=.030), pediatric patients protector's thinking about pediatric patients state (F=16.833, p=.000), treatment outcome (t=5.362, p=.000), duration of stay at emergency center(F=23.944, p=.000).

• Child Health Nursing Research
• /
• v.6 no.1
• /
• pp.5-17
• /
• 2000

The purpose of this study was to provide qualified nursing care to examine the degree of satisfaction with nursing care of pediatric patients visiting emergency center. Data were collected from March, 8 to June, 5, 1999 from 304 subjects including 2 University hospitals located in Seoul. Using the 23 item questionnaire, which made out by Davis CHECSS tool through modification and supplement by researchers. The collected data were scored by use of means and standard deviations according to the degree of satisfaction with nursing care of pediatric patients visiting emergency center and each item as an independent variable was analysed by t-test and ANOVA test. The results are as follows. 1. The degree of satisfaction with the nursing care of pediatric patients visiting emergency center showed as an average of 3.69. 2. With the resept of general characteristics related to pediatric patients visiting emergency center, there were statiscally significant difference in duration of stay at emergency center(F=2.908, p=.014), type of disease(F=1.777, p=.046). The degree of satisfaction with the nursing care of pediatric patients of examiners showed relatively high, but emotional care and information supply are required.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
• /
• v.6 no.3
• /
• pp.375-388
• /
• 2000

This study was attempted to help in explore new direction about Clinical Classification System of the pediatric patients visiting emergency center. Data were collected from 276 patients who visited emergency center of E University Hospital during 3 months period form March 1, to May 31, 1999. The results were as follows: 1. Distribution of pediatric patients according to Clinical Classification System, class I(59.9%) topped followed by class II(23.9%), class III(14.1%), class IV(2.0%). Average score of pediatric patients according to Clinical Classification System showed class I.00, class II .02, class III .05, class IV .07. and total mean score of items lowed averaged .01. 2. With the resepect to the Clinical Classification System according to the pediatric patients visiting emergency center, there were stastically significant difference in visiting time($x^2=27.839$, P=.023), experience of admission($x^2=11.365$, p=.010), disease classification($x^2=89.998$, p=.000), state of airway patency($x^2=18.781$, p=.000), consciousness level($x^2=59.774$, p=.000), period of symptom manifestation($x^2=34.112$, p=.000), pediatric patients protector's thinking about pediatric patients state($x^2=49.998$, p=.000), treatment outcome($x^2=72.278$, p=.000), duration of stay at emergency center($x^2=103.062$, p=.000). 3. There were significant correlation between the state of pediatric patients and Clinical Classification System(r=.530, p=.000).

• Child Health Nursing Research
• /
• v.5 no.1
• /
• pp.97-106
• /
• 1999

The purpose of this study was to provide basic data of nursing intervention through understanding disease pattern of pediatric patients. Data were collected from 3,016 patients who visited emergency center of I university Hospital during one year period from January to December, 1997. The results were as follows : 1. The most common type of disease was respiratory disease (26.7%). 2. According to the developmental age, toddler (35%) ranked first followed by preschooler(22.1%), infant(18.5%), schooler(16.0%), adolescent (5.6%), neonate (2.7%). 3. The proportion of males to females, male patients(59.8%) outnumbered female(40.2%) by the ratio of 1.48 ; 1. 4. Visiting patients were seasonally more frequent in spring(29.8%) and summer (29.3%) than fall or winter. 5. Comparing weekly distribution, week end involing holiday outnumbered week day(48.5%). 6. The visiting time predominattly high from 8 : 00 PM to 0 : 00 AM(29.8%) during a day. 7, The majority duration of stay at Emergency center was 1-6 hours. 8. Most patients dischrged from the emergency center in good condition(76.5%).

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
• /
• v.53 no.3
• /
• pp.314-322
• /
• 2010

Purpose : Through a clinical and retrospective analysis of pediatric patients who visited the Regional Emergency Medical Center of Masan Samsung Hospital from January 2007 to December 2008, we characterized pediatric and adolescent emergency patients to improve emergency care in future. Methods : We reviewed the medical records of 14,065 pediatric patients below 19 years of age. Results : The male to female ratio was 1.5:1, and the most common age group was less than 3 years (49.6%). The peak month was May (10.0%), the peak day of the week was Sunday (24.7%), and the peak time of day was 20:00-0:59 (8.5%). There was no difference in the number of visits per day based on weather (sunny, rain [below 10 mm per day], snow, and fog) or daily temperature difference; however, visits increased on sandy, dusty days and decreased on rainy days with more than 10 mm of rain per day. Based on the international classification of disease (ICD)-10 system, the most common disease code was code R (symptoms, sign, and abnormal clinical laboratory finding) (31.5%), and the most common symptom was fever (13.1%). Final outcomes were discharged (73.8%), admitted (25.7%), transferred (0.4%), and expired (0.1%). In adolescent patients aged 15-9 years, the most common disease code was Injury & Poisoning (code S&T, 36.9%); the most common symptom was abdominal pain (9.6%). Conclusion : Pediatric patients visiting the emergency center were most likely to be male and under 3 years of age and to visit between 20:00 and 21:00 on Sundays and in May, and the most common symptom was fever. Differences between adolescents and pediatric patients showed that adolescents had a higher visiting rate with abdominal pain and a larger temperature difference.