Research Article
Missed Registration of Disease Codes for Pediatric Anaphylaxis at the Emergency Department
Table 5
Administration frequency of the 3 major emergency anaphylaxis drugs.
| Used medicine | Overall (n = 184) | Accurate (n = 23) | Inaccurate coding (n = 161) |
| None (%) | 4 (2.2) | 1 (4.3) | 3 (1.9) | Antihistamine only | 115 (62.5) | 7 (30.4) | 108 (67.1) | Epinephrine only | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | Steroid only | 2 (1.1) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (1.2) | Antihistamine + epinephrine | 13 (7.1) | 1 (4.3) | 12 (7.5) | Antihistamine + steroid | 28 (15.2) | 0 (0.0) | 28 (17.4) | Epinephrine + steroid | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.6) | Antihistamine + epinephrine + steroid | 21 (11.4) | 14 (60.9) | 7 (4.3) |
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