Low acuity paediatric emergency visits under single-payer universal health insurance in Taiwan, 2000-2015: a population-based repeated cross-sectional design.

20 24 Studies have revealed an increasing trend of ED utilisation in many countries with different healthcare systems, 4 5 14 21 25 26 but only a few have investigated changes in LA ED over time. 2 11 27 Although single-centre and multi-centre studies have estimated that 20%–65% of paediatric ED (PED) visits are likely to be classified as LA, 2 15 28 29 none of these studies specifically focused on the changes in LA PED visits in the paediatric population over time.

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A decreasing trend in LA PED visit rates was observed across most of the individual and area subgroups, except for the adolescent population.

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