Does the combination of early rapid assessment by an emergency specialist and fast priority lab testing shorten the amount of time patients spend in the emergency department?
Completed
- Conditions
- Crowding in the emergency departments (EDs) and prolonged waiting times force EDs to operate beyond their capacity and threaten patient outcomes
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON20153
- Lead Sponsor
- nvt
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
All patients:
aged 18 and older
Exclusion Criteria
trauma patients, incl. minor injury work stream patients
when rapid assessment could not be performed within 10 minutes
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method mean length of stay
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method reducing secondary tests and producing faster laboratory results
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