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Breathlessness and presentation to the emergency department: a survey and clinical record review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine, March 2017
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Title
Breathlessness and presentation to the emergency department: a survey and clinical record review
Published in
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12890-017-0396-4
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Authors

Ann Hutchinson, Alistair Pickering, Paul Williams, J. Martin Bland, Miriam J. Johnson

Abstract

Breathlessness is a frequently occurring symptom of cardiorespiratory conditions and is a common cause of emergency department presentation. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of acute-on-chronic breathlessness as a cause for presentation to the major emergencies area of the emergency department. A prospective patient self-report survey and clinical record review of consecutive attendees to the major emergencies area of the emergency department in a single tertiary hospital between 12/5/14 and 29/5/14 was conducted. Eligible patients were clinically stable and had mental capacity to provide data. There were 2,041 presentations during the study period, of whom 1,345 (66%) were eligible. There was a 90% survey response rate (1,212/1,345); 424/1,212 (35%) self-reported breathlessness most days over the past month of whom 245 gave breathlessness as a reason for this presentation. Therefore, the prevalence of acute-on-chronic breathlessness as a reason to present to the major emergencies area was 20.2% (245/1,212, 95% CI 17.9% to 22.5%). During this period there were 4,692 major and minor presentations; breathlessness was therefore a cause of at least 5.2% (245/4,692, 95% CI 4.6 to 5.9%) of all emergency department presentations. This study found that one in five ambulance presentations to the ED were due to acute-on-chronic breathlessness. Most patients had non-malignant underlying conditions, had experienced considerable breathlessness for an extended period, had discussed breathlessness with their GP and presented out of daytime hours. Others were often involved in their decision to present. This represents clinically significant burden for patients, their family carers and the emergency health services.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 70 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 15%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Other 8 11%
Researcher 5 7%
Student > Postgraduate 4 6%
Other 12 17%
Unknown 22 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 38%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 21%
Environmental Science 1 1%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 1%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 1%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 23 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 35. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 October 2019.
All research outputs
#1,089,977
of 24,318,236 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pulmonary Medicine
#38
of 2,100 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#22,630
of 313,396 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pulmonary Medicine
#4
of 39 outputs
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