Research Article
The Study of Incidence and Characteristics of Patients with Eye-Related Chief Complaints at the Emergency Department of Thammasat University Hospital
Table 1
Characteristics of 704 patients with eye-related chief complaints.
| | Variable | Total number (%) (n = 704) |
| | Male gender | 421 (59.8) | | Age, year† | 31 (20, 41) | | Age group, year | | <18 | 111 (15.6) | | 18–44 | 438 (61.4) | | 45–64 | 114 (16) | | ≥65 | 50 (7) | | Triage level | | Immediate | — | | Emergency | 1 (0.1) | | Urgent | 677 (96.2) | | Nonurgent | 26 (3.7) | | Type of illness | | Trauma | 596 (84.7) | | Nontrauma | 108 (15.3) | | ED shift | | Morning | 304 (43.2) | | Afternoon | 292 (41.5) | | Night | 108 (15.3) | | Chief complaint | | Eye pain | 562 (79.8) | | Swollen eye | 55 (7.8) | | Bruise at the eye | 23 (3.3) | | Blurred vision | 21 (3.0) | | Red eye | 18 (2.6) | | Itching eye | 13 (1.8) | | Vision loss | 5 (0.7) | | Bleeding from the eye | 4 (0.6) | | Double vision | 2 (0.3) | | Cannot close the eyelids | 1 (0.1) | | Diagnosis | | Traumatic eye disease | 534 (75.9) | | Nontraumatic eye disease | 74 (10.5) | | Noneye disease | 96 (13.6) |
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†Median (interquartile ranges); ED: emergency department.
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