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Emily Aaronson¹, Pierre Borczuk², Theodore Benzer²

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Reviewing emergency department (ED) returns within 72 hours has low yield for identifying suboptimal care. Most identified errors were diagnostic, often stemming from cognitive failures in the initial patient assessment.

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Emergency Medicine
Quality Assurance
Patient Safety

Background:

Patients returning to the Emergency Department (ED) within 72 hours of discharge are frequently used for quality assurance.
However, the effectiveness and types of errors identified through these reviews are not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To determine the prevalence, types, and severity of errors in patients returning to the ED within 72 hours and requiring hospital admission.

Main Methods:

A retrospective review was conducted on patients presenting to an urban, university-affiliated ED between October 1, 2012, and September 30, 2015.
The study focused on patients who returned within 72 hours and were subsequently admitted to the hospital.

Main Results:

Out of 413,167 ED visits, 2001 (0.48%) patients returned within 72 hours and were admitted.
Deviations from optimal care were identified in 50 (2.49%) of these patients, with 48 (96%) attributed to diagnostic error.
Failures in the initial diagnostic pathway accounted for the majority (60.4%) of these errors, with 32% resulting in minor harm and 68% in major harm or death.

Conclusions:

Screening 72-hour ED returns has a low yield for detecting suboptimal care, with less than 3% of cases showing deviations.
The majority of identified errors are cognitive in nature, occurring during the diagnostic process.
While potentially useful for evaluating individual clinician performance, these reviews may have limited value in identifying systemic issues contributing to unsafe care.