LWhat do emergency services have in common? Monday crowds, with an average attendance 11% higher than other days in the majority of services. But, in its latest survey, the Directorate of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (Drees) above all points to a decrease in visits to emergency rooms in 2023 (20.9 million), after the rebound in 2022 which had not equaled the record set just before the Covid-19 pandemic.
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By zooming in on the departments, the picture for 2023 reveals itself to be contrasting: a quarter of them record more passages than before the health crisis, and 35 departments have suffered temporary closures of at least one point. welcome. In a survey carried out over twenty-four hours in 2023, Drees established that emergency room attendance varied considerably, with a range from 10 to 290 patients examined depending on the service.
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Furthermore, the Court of Auditors pointed out, in November, that 70% of all passages correspond to “not serious” or “not very urgent” cases, including 56% which can be treated in town (sprain, hypotension, etc.) and 16 % requiring neither diagnosis nor urgent treatment (angina, small wound without suture, vagal discomfort, etc.). The Sages also pointed out that data relating to emergencies is numerous but “often partial, not correlated with each other”. It's a mess in the emergency room, but it's hard to say exactly how bad.
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