Research Article
Baseline Characteristics of the Paediatric Observation Priority Score in Emergency Departments outside Its Centre of Derivation
Table 1
Patient disposition at individual hospital sites during study period.
| Location (annual attendance of children to nearest 1000) | Successful ED discharge | Admitted < 24 hours or represented | Admitted > 24 hours | Total |
| Hospital location | Bath (12000) | 122 | 52.4% | 75 | 32.2% | 36 | 15.5% | 233 | Berkshire (26000) | 1034 | 60.2% | 364 | 21.2% | 321 | 18.7% | 1719 | Bristol (35000) | 702 | 72.1% | 110 | 11.3% | 170 | 17.5% | 973 | Gloucestershire (15000) | 191 | 49.1% | 128 | 32.9% | 70 | 18.0% | 389 |
| Combined | 2049 | 61.7% | 677 | 20.4% | 597 | 18.0% | 3323 |
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