Use and misuse of the emergency room by patients with eating disorders in a matched-cohort analysis: What can we learn from it?
Anorexia nervosa
Binge eating disorder
Bulimia nervosa
Eating disorders
Hospital emergency room
Matched-cohort analysis
Journal
Psychiatry research
ISSN: 1872-7123
Titre abrégé: Psychiatry Res
Pays: Ireland
ID NLM: 7911385
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2023
Oct 2023
Historique:
received:
30
04
2023
revised:
18
08
2023
accepted:
19
08
2023
pubmed:
31
8
2023
medline:
31
8
2023
entrez:
30
8
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We examined the pattern of access to hospital emergency room (hER) in 2018-2021 among patients with eating disorders (ED) from Florence, Italy, diagnosed during 1994-2018, using a matched cohort design. We included 902 ED patients and an equal number of sex-, age-, and residence-matched individuals. We fitted conditional Poisson regression models with robust variance estimator to estimate incidence rate ratios (IRR) and 95% confidence intervals. ED patients accessed hER more than twice as often as matched individuals: the IRR was 2.11 (1.21-3.70), 2.02 (1.36-3.00), and 2.49 (1.71-3.61) among AN, BN, and BED patients. Factors associated with increased hER use were older age (≥40 years; for AN patients, also younger age, <20 years), BMI ≤ 16 kg/m
Identifiants
pubmed: 37647700
pii: S0165-1781(23)00377-3
doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115427
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doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
115427Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare they have no conflicts of interest to disclose.