Emergency Presentations for Dizziness—Radiological Findings, Final Diagnoses, and Mortality
Table 1
Demographics of dizziness at ED presentation.
Primary complaint (n = 232, 2.3%)
Secondary complaint (n = 984, 9.8%)
Nondizzy (n = 8860, 87.9%)
SMD
Age (mean (SD))
59.0 (20.3)
54.6 (21.7)
53.1 (21.8)
0.188
<0.001
Sex: Female (n (%))
123 (53.0)
557 (56.6)
4094 (46.2)
0.139
<0.001
ESI (n (%))
0.496
<0.001
1
1 (0.4)
10 (1.0)
202 (2.3)
2
67 (28.9)
364 (37.0)
2198 (24.8)
3
142 (61.2)
464 (47.2)
3444 (38.9)
4
22 (9.5)
142 (14.4)
2745 (31.0)
5
0 (0)
3 (0.3)
263 (3.0)
NA
1 (0.1)
8 (0.0)
Number of symptoms (mean (SD))
2.6 (1.4)
4.3 (2.5)
1.9 (1.5)
0.824
<0.001
Imaging (n (%))
0.544
<0.001
CT
35 (15.1)
165 (16.7)
934 (10.5)
MRI
49 (21.1)
42 (4.3)
142 (1.6)
MRI + CT
20 (8.6)
36 (3.7)
124 (1.4)
None
128 (55.2)
741 (75.3)
7660 (86.5)
Admission (n (%))
94 (40.5)
390 (39.6)
3006 (33.9)
0.091
<0.001
Data are shown as mean and SD for continuous variables and as count and percentage for categorical variables. SD: standard deviation; ESI: emergency severity index.
