title: [Referrals to the surgical emergency room].
abstract: A review of 871 consecutive patients referred to our surgical emergency room is presented. 54% were self-referred, 18% were soldiers referred by army physicians and only 8% were referred by family physicians. Only 60% lived in the hospital admission area. The average stay in the emergency room was 4.1 hours, and only 6.5% needed to be hospitalized. We suggest setting up first aid stations in hospitals to serve as pre-emergency rooms, and that only cases that really require its services be referred to the emergency room.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kashtan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yefidov
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mandelbaum
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005392:First Aid; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008887:Military Medicine; D010821:Physicians, Family; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*