Unscheduled revisits to a pediatric emergency department: risk factors for children with fever or infection-related complaints.

Objective: Unscheduled revisits (URVs) may serve as markers of quality of care and may be costly both in financial terms as well as in limitations they place on primary care. We performed this study to examine the association between characteristics easily obtainable during an emergency department (ED) visit and URV to identify a subpopulation of children who may warrant interventions to decrease URV.

Methods: This is a case-control study of patients visiting an urban tertiary care pediatric ED for a fever or infectious disease-related complaint.

Return visits to a pediatric emergency department.

Objectives: To determine the incidence of return visits (RVs), types of RVs, and factors associated with RVs to a pediatric emergency department (ED).

Methods: : Retrospective cohort study of patients seen in an urban, tertiary care pediatric ED.

Main Outcome: RV within 48 hours, identified from a computerized log.