The specific aims were to record the annual number of discharged users of the ED according to age and gender, their annual number of visits and to assess whether a higher frequency of visits predicted higher mortality; to describe the pattern of discharged diagnoses; to evaluate the association of non-causative diagnoses with mortality in general, and in particular with external causes of death, drug intoxication and suicide; to evaluate risk factors for suicide and fatal drug poisoning; to evaluate the association between death within eight days after discharge home from the ED and non-causative discharge diagnoses.
Önnur markmið voru að lýsa árlegum fjölda útskrifaðra heim af bráðamóttöku (BM); lýsa mynstri útskriftasjúkdómsgreininga; flokka notendur eftir aldri og kyni, kanna árlegan komufjölda þeirra og hvort hann hafi forspárgildi um dánartíðni; meta tengsl einkenna sjúkdómsgreininga við dánartíðni almennt og sérstaklega vegna dánarmeina af ytri orsökum, lyfjaeitrunum og sjálfsvígum; greina áhættuþætti sjálfsvíga og banvænna lyfjaeitrana; meta tengsl andláts innan átta daga eftir útskrift heim af BM við einkenna sjúkdómsgreiningar.