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Why patients self-refer to the emergency service for nonurgency?: A mix-method survey from a family medicine perspective.
Medicine (Baltimore) 2024 March 9
The definition of "nonurgent emergency service visits" is visits to conditions for medical conditions that require attention but are not life-threatening immediately or severe enough to require urgent intervention. This study aims to investigate the reasons why patients choose to self-refer to the emergency service (ES) instead of their primary care health center for nonurgent complaints. The study was carried out in a tertiary hospital. The survey consisted of 2 parts with sociodemographic questions, knowledge of their family physician, and the reason why it has been applied to the ES with multiple choice answers. Of the 325 patients, the mean age was 34.5 years and 54.2% were women. Also, 26 of the patients were reported as "urgent" by the doctor. The main reasons underlying self-referred patients were classified into 4 themes: "urgency" (13.8%), advantages of ES (12.9%); disadvantages of primary care (25.1%), and other (45.9%). The most common reason patients self-refer to the ES was their belief in "being urgent" (61%). In this study, 26.8%, (n = 84) of the patients are not happy with their family physicians, while only 13.2% (N = 43) prioritize the ES advantages.
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