Prevalence rates, description of care
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: All emergency department patients during the treatment years 2015–2025.
Primary: Data from electronic health records will be assessed for their suitability for use in health services research
Sponsors
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: all patients 18 years and older who were treated at one of the participating emergency departments during the calendar years 2015–2025 (all three Charité locations)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: underage
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Primary research objective: The overarching objective of this project is to assess the usability of and analyze routine data (2015–2025) from the emergency department for the purpose of health services research in emergency and acute care medicine. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secondary research questions: Provided there is a suitable data set, the available routine data will be used to further analyze secondary research questions regarding the care of patients in the emergency department in general, as well as in specific subgroups: • Determining the frequency of acute, less acute, and preventable emergency department visits Target groups: Patients receiving outpatient emergency care with a) low utilization of primary care, b) low urgency (triage), c) preventable conditions, and d) chronic manageable conditions, e) patients who frequently use emergency services (“frequent users”), f) patients who leave the emergency department without seeing a doctor (“Left Without Being Seen”), g) patients with acute treatment needs in the emergency department/hospital, h) patients with serious diagnoses. • Care for patients in subgroups based on selected sociodemographic and clinical characteristics: Subgroups are formed, for example, based on the following characteristics: demographic data (age, gender, nationality), primary and secondary reasons for treatment in the emergency department, including reasons for treatment with psychosocial indications, admission and transport to the emergency department, frequency of use, diagnoses (e.g., specific diagnoses, chronic diagnoses, diagnoses from the catalog of outpatient-sensitive hospital cases (ASK), multimorbidity, accidents), clinical data (triage category, symptoms), follow-up care • Indications of factors influencing specific outcome measures in routine data (diagnostic or prognostic factors, risk factors) regarding the presence of a specific diagnosis, the prediction of a specific clinical course (e.g., mortality, clinical deterioration and complications, intensive care stay, need for mechanical ventilation and other intensive care treatment parameters, discharge parameters, length of hospital stay, case costs, DRG, Case Mix Index). • Description and analysis of guideline adherence i | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactAntje Fischer-Rosinský
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Outcome results
None listed