Female emergencies
November 22, 2012
FEMALES are increasingly more
likely to visit a hospital emergency
department than males, according
to research by Associate Professor
Drew Richardson from the
Australian National University.
Addressing the Emergency
Medicine Conference today,
Richardson discussed the findings
of his observational comparison of
population and ED data from July
2005 to June 2006 and from July
2010 to June 2011 in a tertiary ED.
Presentations from the two
periods were classified as primary,
secondary, or non-local by stated
location of residence.
According to his findings female
ED presentations in the primary
area increased by 6.7% in females
but declined by 3.7% in males;
whilst in the secondary area female
presentations increased over the
two periods by 28.1%, whilst male
visits increased by less than half
that rate, at 13%.
In addition age-standardised
ambulance arrivals rose 12.7% in
females and 7.7% in males from
primary, and 22.6% and 21.3% from
secondary.
“Age-specific presentations from
this ED's primary population have
increased in females but decreased
in males over five years of increasing
demand,” said Richardson.
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