Burcu Kayhan TETİK, Bora TETİK, Aytaç KARAOĞLAN, Cem ALPAĞAN, Nur PAKSOY, Burak METE

ACİL SERVİSE MÜRACAAT EDEN HASTALARIN AİLE HEKİMLİĞİ BAKIŞ AÇISIYLA DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Amaç: Acil servislerin gerçek kullanılma nedenleri dışında uygunsuz kullanılması her geçen gün artmakta ve acil servislerin işleyişini bozmaktadır. Çalışmamızda Acil Servise müracaat eden hastaların bir yıllık verileri incelenerek, bu hastaların son tanılarına göre, ne kadarının acil servisleri uygun kullandığını belirlemek ve bu konuda oluşturulacak yeni politikalara yardımcı olmak amaçlanmıştır. Materyal ve Metot: 1 Ocak -31 Aralık 2017 tarihleri arasında hastanemiz acil servisine müracaat eden hastaların dosyaları incelenmiştir. Veriler SPSS 22 programı ile değerlendirilmiş, analizde Ki-kare testi kullanılmıştır. Anlamlılık değeri p

EVALUATION OF PATIENTS ADMISSING EMERGENCY CARE SERVICES FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF FAMILY MEDICINE

Objectives: Inappropriate use of Emergency Department (ED) for non-urgent complaints compromises thefunctioning of ED and has been increasing day by day. In this study, we examined the annual data of the patientswho admitted to the Emergency Department in order to determine the ratio of appropriate usage according tothe definitive diagnoses of the patients and to help forward new policies regarding this issue.Materials and Methods: Files of patients, who admitted to our ED between January 1 and December 31 , 2017,were examined. Data were evaluated by SPSS software version 22 , and the analyses were performed by usingthe Chi-square test. A value of p

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