A 10-year population-based nationwide descriptive analysis of pediatric emergency care

BMC Pediatrics

Table 3 Top ten diagnoses of children receiving emergency care without subsequent hospitalization (2000-2009)*

	0-5 y		6-11 y	12-17 y	0-17y
Top	0-11 m	1-5y
1	General symptoms**	AURI	AURI	AURI	AURI
2	AURI	General symptoms	Abdomen/pelvis symptoms	General symptoms	General symptoms
3	Acute pharyngitis	Acute pharyngitis	General symptoms	Abdomen/pelvis symptoms	Acute pharyngitis
4	Acute bronchiolitis	Acute tonsillitis	Gastroenteritis/colitis	Gastroenteritis/colitis	Gastroenteritis/colitis
5	Gastroenteritis/colitis	Gastroenteritis/colitis	Acute pharyngitis	Open wound of head	Abdomen/pelvis symptoms
6	Acute tonsillitis	Acute bronchiolitis	Acute tonsillitis	Acute pharyngitis	Acute tonsillitis
7	GI symptoms	Open wound of head	Open wound of head	Contusion of lower limb	Acute bronchiolitis
8	Urinary tract infection	Abdomen/pelvis symptoms	Acute bronchiolitis	Gastritis/duodenitis	Open wound of head
9	Intestinal infections	GI symptoms	Functional digestive disorders	Acute tonsillitis	Gastritis/duodenitis
10	Abdomen/pelvis symptoms	Gastritis/duodenitis	GI symptoms	Contusion of upper limb	GI symptoms

*Diagnoses were retrieved and sorted using the first three ICD-9-CM codes from the random systematic sampling database of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database.
**Including non-specific symptoms like fever, convulsion, dizziness, syncope, sleep disorders, malaise and fatigue, et al. (ICD-9-CM: 780).
Abbreviations: AURI acute upper respiratory infections, GI gastrointestinal system (digestive system), m months, y years.

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