Predictors for Admission to Emergency Department More Than 48 Hours

Completed

• Conditions: Length of Admission

• Registration Number: NCT01723449
• Lead Sponsor: University of Southern Denmark

Brief Summary

In Demark acutely admitted patients are supposed to stay in the Emergency Department (ED) bed ward if the anticipated duration of stay is less than 48 hours.

However, it is not a trivial matter to estimate duration of stay for emergency patients. a number of factors affect this, eg. social background, disease, hospital organisation.

The aim of this study is to analyse whom are the best among the health staff to predict the length of stay: ED nurses, admitting doctors og the specialist, and to analyse if a number of variables can be used to improve the prediction.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2012-10-24
• Study Start: 2012-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-11-05
• Study First Posted: 2012-11-07
• Primary Completion: 2013-09
• Study Completion: 2013-10
• Status Verified: 2016-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-02-13
• Last Update Posted: 2016-02-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 730

Inclusion Criteria

all patients admitted to the Emergency Department -

Exclusion Criteria

Children less than 15 years patients transferred from other hospitals

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
length of admission in hours	admission to discharge	participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of 76 hours

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Aabenraa Sygehus Emergency Department; 🇩🇰 Aabenraa, Denmark