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Variation in Emergency Department Crowding During the Competition Hours of a Football Team

Cilt: 7 Sayı: 3 31 Aralık 2025
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Variation in Emergency Department Crowding During the Competition Hours of a Football Team

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Objective: This study aimed to determine if the number of emergency department visits decreased during the matches of a football team in the Turkish Super League. Materials and Methods: Thirty-eight super league matches of Trabzonspor in the 2021-2022 football season were evaluated. On match days, we recorded the number of patients admitted to the emergency department during a four-hour period, starting one hour before the match and ending one hour after the match. Then, this number of patients was compared with the number of patients in the same time period one day before and one day after the match. Results: When the number of patients admitted during the match time was compared with the average number of patients admitted on non-match days in the same time period, no statistically significant difference was observed in the weeks with derby matches (p=0.230), while the decrease in the number of patients in all other parameters was statistically significant (p<0.05). Conclusion: The statistically significant decrease in the number of patients admitted to the emergency department at the time of a sporting competition compared to other days indicates that some of the admissions to emergency departments on normal days do not include truly urgent cases. In order to improve the quality of health and care services provided to patients with true emergencies, we believe that effective triage of non-emergency cases and various regulations regarding inappropriate use of emergency medicine units would be beneficial.

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Çalışmamız için Erzincan Binali Yıldırım Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Etik Kurulu’ndan onay alındı ​​(Etik Kurul Karar Tarihi: 07.03.2024 / karar no: 2024-03/08).

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Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

31 Aralık 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

27 Ekim 2025

Kabul Tarihi

1 Kasım 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 7 Sayı: 3

Kaynak Göster

APA
Kantar, Y., Baykan, N., & İpekten, F. (2025). Variation in Emergency Department Crowding During the Competition Hours of a Football Team. Eurasian Journal of Critical Care, 7(3), 21-25. https://doi.org/10.55994/ejcc.1811679
AMA
1.Kantar Y, Baykan N, İpekten F. Variation in Emergency Department Crowding During the Competition Hours of a Football Team. Eurasian Journal of Critical Care. 2025;7(3):21-25. doi:10.55994/ejcc.1811679
Chicago
Kantar, Yusuf, Necmi Baykan, ve Funda İpekten. 2025. “Variation in Emergency Department Crowding During the Competition Hours of a Football Team”. Eurasian Journal of Critical Care 7 (3): 21-25. https://doi.org/10.55994/ejcc.1811679.
EndNote
Kantar Y, Baykan N, İpekten F (01 Aralık 2025) Variation in Emergency Department Crowding During the Competition Hours of a Football Team. Eurasian Journal of Critical Care 7 3 21–25.
IEEE
[1]Y. Kantar, N. Baykan, ve F. İpekten, “Variation in Emergency Department Crowding During the Competition Hours of a Football Team”, Eurasian Journal of Critical Care, c. 7, sy 3, ss. 21–25, Ara. 2025, doi: 10.55994/ejcc.1811679.
ISNAD
Kantar, Yusuf - Baykan, Necmi - İpekten, Funda. “Variation in Emergency Department Crowding During the Competition Hours of a Football Team”. Eurasian Journal of Critical Care 7/3 (01 Aralık 2025): 21-25. https://doi.org/10.55994/ejcc.1811679.
JAMA
1.Kantar Y, Baykan N, İpekten F. Variation in Emergency Department Crowding During the Competition Hours of a Football Team. Eurasian Journal of Critical Care. 2025;7:21–25.
MLA
Kantar, Yusuf, vd. “Variation in Emergency Department Crowding During the Competition Hours of a Football Team”. Eurasian Journal of Critical Care, c. 7, sy 3, Aralık 2025, ss. 21-25, doi:10.55994/ejcc.1811679.
Vancouver
1.Yusuf Kantar, Necmi Baykan, Funda İpekten. Variation in Emergency Department Crowding During the Competition Hours of a Football Team. Eurasian Journal of Critical Care. 01 Aralık 2025;7(3):21-5. doi:10.55994/ejcc.1811679