Top 10 diagnoses for emergency department (ED) visits by patients with cancer seen within 30 days of receiving chemotherapy
| ED diagnosis | No. (%) of visits | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Total ED visits n = 218 459 | Hospital admission n = 77 978 (35.7%)* | 30-day mortality n = 21 333 (9.8%)* | |
| Infection or fever | 57 036 (26.1) | 26 060 (45.6) | 3900 (6.8) |
| Gastrointestinal | 26 456 (12.1) | 11 490 (43.4) | 2578 (9.7) |
| Pain | 22 135 (10.1) | 4744 (21.4) | 1664 (7.5) |
| Injury or MSK† | 14 971 (6.8) | 2220 (14.8) | 639 (4.2) |
| Pulmonary | 12 492 (5.7) | 5406 (43.2) | 2319 (18.5) |
| Cardiac | 9870 (4.6) | 4613 (46.7) | 923 (9.3) |
| Weakness, social issues | 9814 (4.4) | 5131 (52.2) | 2377 (24.2) |
| Related to device, graft or stoma | 7176 (3.2) | 588 (8.1) | 310 (4.3) |
| Ill-defined complaints | 6585 (3.0) | 355 (5.3) | 308 (4.6) |
| Genitourinary and nephrology | 6280 (2.8) | 2280 (36.3) | 644 (10.2) |
| Other | 45 644 (20.8) | 15 091 (33.0) | 5671 (12.4) |