Publications by authors named "Fanny Le Querrec"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to examine how socioeconomic position (SEP) affects the use of emergency departments (EDs) in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France.
- Researchers analyzed 496,388 ED visits from 2012 and found that the visit rate increased with levels of deprivation, with disadvantaged individuals visiting EDs significantly more than advantaged ones.
- Despite the differences in visit rates, the likelihood of those visits being non-severe was similar across all SEP groups, suggesting health states, rather than health behaviors, play a key role in ED utilization.
Objectives: The objectives of this study are to describe an emergency department (ED) adult population with the chief complaint of mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use and to investigate sex- and age-related differences.
Methods: We analyzed data (2009-2011) from the Regional Observatory of Emergency Medicine ORU-MiP (700000 patients per year) for all patients with a primary diagnosis of mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use. Day data were weighted by the number of days in the year and expressed for 100000 inhabitants of the area.