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

BMC Pediatrics

Table 4 Top ten diagnoses of children requiring emergency care and subsequent hospitalization (2000-2009)*

	0-5 y		6-11 y	12-17 y	0-17y
Top	0-11 m	1-5y
1	Acute bronchiolitis	Fluid/electrolyte disorder	Fluid/electrolyte disorder	Open wound of head	Fluid/electrolyte disorder
2	Fluid/electrolyte disorder	Bronchopneumonia	Acute tonsillitis	Normal delivery	Bronchopneumonia
3	Gastroenteritis/colitis	Gastroenteritis/colitis	Gastroenteritis/colitis	Acute appendicitis	Gastroenteritis/colitis
4	Urinary tract infection	Acute tonsillitis	Bronchopneumonia	Radius/ulna fracture	Acute bronchiolitis
5	Bronchopneumonia	Acute bronchiolitis	Acute bronchiolitis	Concussion	Acute tonsillitis
6	Bacterial infection	Enterovirus infection	Pneumonia	Fluid/electrolyte disorder	Acute pharyngitis
7	General symptoms	Acute pharyngitis	Acute pharyngitis	Gastroenteritis/colitis	Enterovirus infection
8	Atopic dermatitis	Pneumonia	Asthma	Acute tonsillitis	Pneumonia
9	Enterovirus infection	General symptoms	Acute appendicitis	Contusion of trunk	General symptoms
10	Acute pharyngitis	Otitis media	Gastritis/duodenitis	General symptoms	Urinary tract infection

*The diagnoses were retrieved and sorted using first 3 ICD-9-CM codes from the random systematic sampling database of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database.
Abbreviations: m months, y years.

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