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Patients presenting with 'chest pain' or 'feeling unwell' were less likely to return unscheduled.
Patients suffering from 'chest pain', 'feeling unwell' and children triaged with the category 'sick baby' were less likely to return unscheduled.
Two studies concerning a paediatric population found that children with a high triage level were more likely to return unscheduled [[14],[16]], while in a study concerning a mixed population, returning patients had low triage levels [[11]].
Patients with an urgent triage level, patients presenting during the night shift, with a wound or local infection, abdominal pain or urinary problems were more likely to return unscheduled.
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Reasons for returning unscheduled were categorized into illness-, patient- or physician-related.
In total, 2,161 patients returned unscheduled to the ED within a week of their initial registration.
Reasons for returning unscheduled were categorized into illness-related, patient-related or physician-related (Table 1), based on examples from previous studies [[6],[9],[23]].
Thick films were taken every 8 h until at least 72 h or until a negative smear was recorded at least 7 25 h apart, then at each visit, or if the patient returned unscheduled.
The day after one of his follow-up visits during which dilated fundoscopy and retinal imaging was performed, and the dose of his acetazolamide was halved to 250 mg twice daily due to mild systemic side effects, he returned for unscheduled review, reporting left eye discomfort and increasing floaters.
Some patients with an unscheduled return visit returned more than once during the week after their initial visit.
We hypothesized that risk factors for unscheduled return and reasons for returning would differ from previous studies, due to differences in health care systems.
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