Does Assessment of Ambulance Medical Service Leads to Reduced Number of Transports to the Emergency Room?
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Emergency Medical ServiceAssessmentRegistered Nurse
- Interventions
- Other: Ambulant assessment
- Registration Number
- NCT03466905
- Lead Sponsor
- Dalarna County Council, Sweden
- Brief Summary
There is a need to reduce the number of ambulance transports to the Emergency Room to the patients who are not in need of urgent medical care. There are currently no studies and the aim of the study is to investigate if the ambulance transports to the Emergency Room can be reduced by a dialogue between a Registered Nurse in ambulance and a Medical Doctor in the Primary Care (called "Ambulant assessment"). In this connection there is also a need to follow up patients that not have been transported to the Emergency Room, secondary ambulance transport, relapse within 48 hours, type of examination and treatment and mortality.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Inclusion Criteria
- patients >18 years
- ambulance missions in the Community of Borlänge/Falun (case) and Community of Leksand (control)
- weekday and weekend, 08:00 to 22:00
- initially evaluated not to need urgent Medical care according RETTS
Exclusion Criteria
- initially evaluated need urgent Medical care according RETTS
- the patient unable to give consent to the study
- patient with existing care plan
- ambulance mission without patient
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Intervention Ambulant assessment Assessment of Ambulance Medical Service
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Number of visits to the Emergency Room Up to 24 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
County Council of Dalarna
🇸🇪Falun, Dalarna, Sweden