Foreign Patient Disease Study

An Observational Study on Diseases Among Foreign Patients - FP-DISEASE Study

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000060570

Enrollment

3500

Registered

2026-02-05

Start date

2021-02-26

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-29

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Various diseases among foreign patients, including infectious diseases

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Foreign patients who visited our ER, operated by the Department of Emergency and General Medicine and Health Science at Nippon Medical School, on or after April 1, 2017, and whose electronic medical record data were available.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Patients with missing key clinical information or insufficient electronic medical record data required for analysis.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Distribution and proportion of disease categories (infectious and non-infectious diseases) among foreign patients visiting the emergency department.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Prevalence and causes of infectious diseases among foreign patients Differences in disease distribution according to country of origin or residency status Associations between disease categories, triage acuity, and mode of arrival (ambulance or walk-in)	—

Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactMakoto Suzaki

Nippon Medical School Hospital Department of Emergency and General Medicine and Health Science

mstnndr1@nms.ac.jp+81-3-3822-2131

Outcome results