Study tracking the 20 people who attend the Mater emergency department most finds most are men, all

This group of patients often have psychosocial, substance misuse and/or chronic illness issues.

A study of the 20 most common attendees of the Mater Hospital’s emergency department has found that most are men and all are unemployed.

The April edition of the Irish Medical Journal carries a retrospective review of those who attended the hospital’s ED most in 2014.

With hospital overcrowding a constant issue, the report says that there is little focus on frequent emergency department attendees.

However, a small number of patients are responsible for a disproportionate amount of ED visits with up to 4% of patients accounting for 18% of total ED visits in one particular study.

Study tracking the 20 people who attend the Mater emergency department most finds most are men, all

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