Hospital characteristics
Hospital | Paediatric upper age limit (years) | Population, rural/inner city | Type of hospital, paediatric or mixed hospital and ED | Supervising specialist | Paediatric ED visits (n) | Primary care during out-of-office hours | Self- referral (%) | Triage system | Admission rate (%) |
AT, MUG* | 17 | Mixed | Tertiary, university hospital mixed, ED paediatric | Paediatrician | 10 000–20 000 | No | 50–75 | MTS | 12 |
DE, LMU† | 18 | Mixed | Tertiary university hospital and ED paediatric | Paediatrician, paediatric emergency physician | 10 000–20 000 | Yes | 50–75 | MTS | 10 |
GR, NKUA‡ | 16 | Inner city | Tertiary, university hospital and ED paediatric | Paediatrician | 30 000–40 000 | No | >75 | Local/National | 15 |
LV, RSU§ | 18 | Mixed | Tertiary, university hospital and ED paediatric | Paediatrician | >40 000 | No | 20–50 | MTS | 12 |
NL, RUMC¶ | 18 | Mixed | Tertiary university hospital paediatric, ED mixed | Paediatrician, emergency physician | <10 000 | Yes | <20 | Local/National | 30 |
NL, EMC** | 18 | Mixed | Tertiary university hospital paediatric, ED mixed | Paediatrician | <10 000 | Yes | 20–50 | MTS | 20 |
SL, UKCL†† | 18 | Mixed | Tertiary university hospital mixed, ED paediatric | Paediatrician | <10 000 | Yes | <5 | Local/National | 51 |
SP, SERGAS‡‡ | 15 | Mixed | University hospital mixed, ED paediatric | Paediatrician | 30 000–40 000 | Yes | >75 | MTS | 4 |
UK, LIV§§ | 16 | Mixed | Tertiary, university hospital and ED paediatric | Paediatric emergency physician | >40 000 | Yes | 50–75 | MTS | 20 |
UK, SMH¶¶ | 16 | Inner city | University hospital mixed, ED paediatric | Paediatric emergency physician | 20 000–30 000 | Yes | >75 | MTS | 15 |
UK, UNEW*** | 16 | Mixed | Tertiary, university hospital and ED paediatric | Paediatrician, emergency physician | 20 000–30 000 | Yes | 50–75 | MTS | 15 |
*Medical University of Graz, Department of General Paediatrics, Graz, Austria.
†Dr von Hauner Children’s Hospital, university hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
‡National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Second Department of Paediatrics, P & A Kyriakou Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece.
§Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte, Children’s Clinical University Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, Riga, Latvia.
¶Amalia Children’s Hospital, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
**Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Department of General Paediatrics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
††University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Department of Infectious Diseases, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
‡‡Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
§§Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK.
¶¶Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Section of Paediatrics, London, UK.
***Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
ED, emergency department; MTS, Manchester Triage System.