Agreement Between Emergency Department Admission and Hospital Discharge Diagnoses; A Retrospective Observational Study.
Diagnostic agreement between ED and discharge diagnoses was observed in 81.99% of cases, with a 7.2% complete mismatch rate. The most frequent causes were discharge relabeling and delayed investigations. These discrepancies had measurable impacts on management, hospital stay, and mortality.
Authors
- Abdullah Alshahrani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9822-5379)
- Saad M. Alshahrani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9065-6342)
- Saad Ali AlAsiri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3999-4255)
- Qasem Ahmed Almulihi
- Anas Obeid (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9232-5706)
- Arif Ishtiq Mattoo
- Farhat Anjum Mattoo
- Donnie Neil Sarmiento
Institutions
- Saad Specialist Hospital (SA)
- King Fahd Hospital of the University (SA)
- Sulaiman Al Rajhi Colleges (SA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PubMed
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.22037/aaemj.v13i1.2597
- Primary Topic
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00