Analysis of Emergency Department Visits According to Incidence of Covid-19

Completed

• Conditions: Emergency Service, Hospital; Epidemiology

• Registration Number: NCT05126641
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier de Roubaix

Brief Summary

With lockdown, Emergency Departments (ED) visits decrease, principally for visits unrelated with Covid-19. In this study, the investigators aimed to find a correlation between ED visits and incidence rate of Covid-19 in a French metropolis.

Detailed Description

All patients older than 18 years were included in 9 ED during 51 weeks. Patients transferred between the centers participating in the study were excluded.

The investigators count the number of visits per weeks, then the number of visits according to :

* reason for consultation Covid-like (cough, fever or dyspnea),

* reason for consultation with accordance to French Emergency Medicine Society (SFMU) reference

* diagnosis with accordance to SFMU reference

* orientation (home, medical unit, chirurgical unit, intensive care unit, psychiatric unit, death)

Pearson's correlation test compare incidence rate per week with this counts and admission rate.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-05-13
• Primary Completion: 2021-05-04
• Study Completion: 2021-05-04
• Status Verified: 2021-11
• Study First Submitted: 2021-11-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-11-17
• Study First Posted: 2021-11-19
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-11-19
• Last Update Posted: 2021-11-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 400000

Inclusion Criteria

• patients over 18 years old

Exclusion Criteria

• patient who are transferred between centers participating to the study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
non-Covid-19 visit	51 weeks	Count of non-Covid-19 visit per week

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Diagnosis	51 weeks	Count of each diagnostic category according to SFMU reference
Reason for visits	51 weeks	Count of each reason for visits category according to SFMU reference
Orientation	51 weeks	Count of each orientation (home, medical unit, chirurgical unit, intensive care unit, death, psychiatric unit, other)
Admission rate	51 weeks	Admission rate per week

Trial Locations

Locations (4)

Emergency Department, GHICL Saint-Philibert; 🇫🇷 Lomme, Nord, France

Emergency Department, General Hospital; 🇫🇷 Tourcoing, Nord, France

Emergency Department, University Hospital; 🇫🇷 Lille, Nord, France

Emergency Department, GHICL Saint-Vincent; 🇫🇷 Lille, France