The source wanted to assess the breakdown of the modes of discharge of patients released from emergency rooms in France in 2013. In that year, approximately three-quarters of the patients returned home after their visit to the emergency department.
Breakdown of the modes of discharge of patients released from emergency rooms in France in 2013
Characteristic
Share of respondents
Returned home
75.7%
Hospitalization
19.9%
Gone without waiting
2%
Returned to a residential institution for dependent elderly people (EHPAD)
Patients who checked in to one of the 736 emergency rooms
Method of interview
Questionnaire
Supplementary notes
Data were retrieved from a national survey of Hospital Emergency Department Structures. This survey is conducted on an irregular basis by the Directorate of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (DREES) and the Ministry of Health. The last survey was carried out between 8 a.m. on 11 June 2013 and 8 a.m. the following day among all patients who had presented themselves to the emergency services in all the structures authorized for this activity in metropolitan France and in the overseas departments.
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DREES, & Ministère des Affaires sociales, de la Santé et des Droits des femmes. (July 30, 2014). Breakdown of the modes of discharge of patients released from emergency rooms in France in 2013 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 25, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1102948/discharge-emergency-room-patients-france/
DREES, und Ministère des Affaires sociales, de la Santé et des Droits des femmes. "Breakdown of the modes of discharge of patients released from emergency rooms in France in 2013." Chart. July 30, 2014. Statista. Accessed August 25, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1102948/discharge-emergency-room-patients-france/
DREES, Ministère des Affaires sociales, de la Santé et des Droits des femmes. (2014). Breakdown of the modes of discharge of patients released from emergency rooms in France in 2013. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: August 25, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1102948/discharge-emergency-room-patients-france/
DREES, and Ministère des Affaires sociales, de la Santé et des Droits des femmes. "Breakdown of The Modes of Discharge of Patients Released from Emergency Rooms in France in 2013." Statista, Statista Inc., 30 Jul 2014, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1102948/discharge-emergency-room-patients-france/
DREES & Ministère des Affaires sociales, de la Santé et des Droits des femmes, Breakdown of the modes of discharge of patients released from emergency rooms in France in 2013 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1102948/discharge-emergency-room-patients-france/ (last visited August 25, 2024)
Breakdown of the modes of discharge of patients released from emergency rooms in France in 2013 [Graph], DREES, & Ministère des Affaires sociales, de la Santé et des Droits des femmes, July 30, 2014. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1102948/discharge-emergency-room-patients-france/