Trends in Follow-Up of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Symptomatic Cholelithiasis

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Francesca M DimouTaylor S Riall

Abstract

Fewer than 25% of Medicare beneficiaries presenting with symptomatic cholelithiasis undergo elective cholecystectomy. To better understand underuse of cholecystectomy, we examined physician follow-up patterns after emergency department (ED) visits for symptomatic gallstones. We used 100% Texas Medicare claims (2001 to 2010) to identify patients 66 years of age and older who presented to the ED with symptomatic cholelithiasis and were discharged home without cholecystectomy. Timing of outpatient physician visits after ED discharge and rates of emergent cholecystectomy based on physician follow-up patterns were compared. In total, 11,126 patients presented to the ED with symptomatic cholelithiasis and were discharged without cholecystectomy. After discharge, 5,327 patients (47.9%) had an outpatient surgeon visit, 29.0% saw another physician and never saw a surgeon, and 23.1% never saw a physician; 68.2% of patients who saw a surgeon underwent elective cholecystectomy; and 8.3% of patients who saw a surgeon, 14.6% of patients who saw other physicians and no surgeon, and 77.6% of patients who never saw any physician, required emergent hospitalization (p < 0.0001). For people who did not see a physician, mean time to emergent hospit...Continue Reading

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