Economic Recession and Attendances in the Pediatric Emergency Department

Table 1

Place of residence of ED attendees.

	2008	2013	2017	P	P-for-trend
Achaia	1277 (73.5)	1429 (78.4)	1757 (83.6)	< 0.001	< 0.001
Ilia	73 (4.2)	76 (4.2)	93 (4.4)	0.909	0.720
Aetolia-Acarnania	109 (6.3)	112 (6.1)	130 (6.2)	0.987	0.920
Other	279 (16.0)	206 (11.3)	121 (5.7)	< 0.001	< 0.001

Data are number of cases with percentages in parentheses. Statistical significance was calculated by chi-square test.
Local Regional Unit; regional units of the region of Western Greece; refers to children of whom families were visiting the region of Western Greece at the time of ED presentation.
ED: emergency department.