Abstract

• 5289 pediatric age group patients in the emergency room in E.W.U. Hospital during 3 years from Jan. 1980 to Dec. 1982.
  The results were obtained as follow
  1) Among the patients visiting the emergency room, the patients under the 15 years of age were 29.1% of total emergency patients.
  2) The male to female ratio was 1.7:1.
  3) Monthly distribution of patients showed progressive increasing from May to October, and the high incidence in October.
  4) Most frequent diseases was respiratory disease(21.8%), followed by accident(18.3%), gastrointestinal disease(16.5%) and neurologic disease(9.8%).
  5) In the respiratory disease, the most frequent disease was upper respiratory infection(59.3%), followed by pneumonia(10.2%) and bronchiolitis(5.3%). In the accident, the most frequent disease was trauma(52.4%). In the gastrointestinal disease, the most frequent disease was gastroenteritis(84.6%). In the neurologic disease, the most frequent disease was febrile convulsion(43.9%). In the neonatal disease, the most frequent disease was neonatal hyperbilirubinemia(24.8%).
  6) Adimission rate through emergency room was 32%.