Fig 1.
Input, throughput and output flow diagram of included patients.
Patients treated by the ED physician are depicted in white, and those treated by the other specialties in grey. The boxes with dashed lines present patients that received no consultation or multidisciplinary approach. When the lines are closed, patients received one or multiple consultations. One patient was admitted to the ward without being treated by any physician. In 1 patients the final disposition was unknown. Six patients had another final disposition as depicted, of whom 5 had died on the ED and 1 returned to the psychiatric hospital were the patient was admitted before arrival at the ED.
Table 1.
Patient characteristics.
Table 2.
Appropriateness of mandatory consultations.
Table 3.
Appropriateness of none mandatory consultations.
Table 4.
Multivariable logistic regression analysis to predict consultation.