12 Children with Bronchiolitis admitted to a Community Hospital Emergency Department

What is it about?

Since bronchiolitis is the leading cause of infant hospitalization with a wide variation in terms of diagnosis and management, especially in smaller community hospitals. This study aims to describe children admitted for bronchiolitis to a community-based emergency hospital department and its management within the hospital.

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Why is it important?

Our findings showed that many children admitted to a community-based emergency department received unnecessary bronchodilators, steroids, and chest x-rays. Based on our findings, we suggest that the development of institutional or health region-specific clinical practice guidelines that consider local culture as well as encourages collaboration with stakeholders may help in optimal diagnosis and treatment of bronchiolitis in community-based ED.