To analyze the factors involved in access to Emergency Department (ED) of undocumented immigrants in Lampedusa according to the country of origin.This is a retrospective observational study, carried out on newly arrived undocumented immigrants transferred to ED.Data were collected from medical records of Lampedusa ED between January 2012 and May 2013 on 326 undocumented immigrants.The outcomes evaluated are demographics characteristics and health condition of undocumented immigrants.In multivariate analysis associated factors to ED visits are: other pathologies rather than traumatic diseases (OR 0.22; p0.001), younger age (OR 0.9; p0.001) and female sex (OR 12.49; p=0.017) for Somalis; gastroenterological diseases (OR 2.55; p=0.026) and older age (OR 1.6; p=0.004) for Eritrean; neurological disease (OR 5.33; p=0.048) and male sex (OR 5.45; p=0.032) for Tunisian.This analysis shows that undocumented immigrants cannot be considered as a single population, because they generate a diversified set of pathological conditions.
