Application of Geographical Information System Data in the Emergency Department, Effect on Trauma Team and Medical Emergency Team Wait

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: All Acutely Ill or Injured Patients
• Interventions: Device: Geographic Information System

• Registration Number: NCT02188966
• Lead Sponsor: University of Aarhus

Brief Summary

In the Emergency Department Regional Hospital Horsens a monitor will display Geographical Information System data (GIS data) for all ambulances with the hospital as final destination. The location, estimated time of arrival (ETA) and urgency code for the ambulances will be showed. Furthermore the patient's name, personal identification number and the primary message received by the emergency medical dispatch center resulting in ambulance dispatch will be displayed. This may enable the coordinating nurse to optimize timing of the ad hoc trauma team and medical emergency team activation. The teams are activated if the patient's condition is assessed to be of the highest urgency and/or severity - triage 1 or "red". The coordinating nurse makes this assessment on the basis of information from the ambulance personnel and makes the decision to activate the team and when to do it. In this study the investigators want to examine if the availability of GIS data in the emergency department results in reduced waiting time for the members of the trauma team and medical emergency team. The study will be conducted as a before and after study.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2014-03
• Study Start: 2014-05
• Study First Submitted: 2014-05-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-07-11
• Study First Posted: 2014-07-14
• Primary Completion: 2014-11
• Study Completion: 2014-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-12-08
• Last Update Posted: 2015-12-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 599

Inclusion Criteria

• Critically Ill or Severely injured patients transported by ambulance
• Patients must be in triage category 1/"red"
• Emergency Medical Team og Trauma Team must be activated.

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Exclusion Criteria

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Geographical Information System	Geographic Information System	Availability of Geographical Information System data from ambulances destined for the Emergency Department of Regional Hospital Horsens.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Waiting time	Time from activation of trauma team to arrival of patient, expected assesment within 1 minute after patients arrival, expected to be presented up to 36 months after assesment .	Triage 1 or "red" of a patient indicates the highest urgency and/or severity of illness. If the coordinating nurse at the emergency department assess that a patient on the to the department is "red" the trauma team or medical emergency team is activated. The time is registered automatically in the internal telephone system of the hospital. The patient's time of arrival is registered manually. The time from activation to arrival can then be calculated and is defined as "Waiting time".

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Emergency Departmartment Regional Hospital Horsens; 🇩🇰 Horsens, Central Denmark Regione, Denmark