A study published in the Emergency Medical Journal examined the medical problems of a cohort of children aged from birth to 15 who visited the emergency department at Nottingham Queen’s Medical Centre between February 2007 and February 2008.
The report authors, who included president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Professor Terence Stephenson, compared the results with those of a cohort from a decade earlier and discovered that the number of patients attending the children’s emergency department had remained similar, but the number attending with common medical problems had risen by 42 per cent.
A total of 39,394 children were seen in 2007/8, 14,724 of these had medical conditions. This compared with 38,982 children seen in 1997, of whom 10,369 were found to have medical problems.
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