Med Clin Barcelona
The most recent articles from:
December 1992
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The massification of pediatric hospital emergency departments (PED) is due to bad use of the same by a large number of users. The causes related with this inadequate use have not been properly evaluated. ⋯ Pediatric hospital emergency departments receive a high number of inadequate consultations at the second level of health care. The importance of the age of the patient, accessibility of pediatric hospital emergency departments and who takes the initiative to come must be emphasized as predictive variables of the bad use of these pediatric departments.