Predictors for Admission to Emergency Department More Than 48 Hours

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01723449

Enrollment

730

Registered

2012-11-07

Start date

2012-11-30

Completion date

2013-10-31

Last updated

2016-02-17

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Conditions

Length of Admission

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.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

15 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

all patients admitted to the Emergency Department -

Exclusion criteria

Children less than 15 years patients transferred from other hospitals \-

Design outcomes

Primary

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

Countries

Denmark

Outcome results