Non Attendance at Scheduled Appointments as a Marker of Mortality and Hospital Admission

Non Attendance at Scheduled Appointments as a Marker of Visits in the Emergency Department, Hospitalization and Mortality

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02210637

Enrollment

177083

Registered

2014-08-07

Start date

2015-12-31

Completion date

2017-12-31

Last updated

2015-12-17

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Conditions

Appointments and Schedules, Emergency Department, Hospitalization, Mortality, Outpatient Clinics, Hospital/Economics

Keywords

Appointments and Schedules, Outpatient Clinics, Hospital/Economics, Emergency Department, Hospitalization, Mortality

Brief summary

To evaluate the association of non attendance at scheduled appointments with visits in the emergency department, hospitalizations and mortality during one year follow up.

Detailed description

Nonattendance at scheduled appointments at outpatient clinics is a common problem in general medical practice, representing a significant cost to the health care system, and resulting in disruption of daily work planning.Nonattendance at medical appointments has consequences not only for doctors (as it requires a greater use of resources and time), but also for patients, because there may be deterioration in the quality of care, and dissatisfaction associated with delays in obtaining a new appointment

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Over 17 years. * Adults who attended, did not attend a scheduled appointment at the Outpatient care system at the Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires (HIBA)

Exclusion criteria

\- The refusal to register or to the informed consent process.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
All cause mortality	1 year	Mortality of all causes retrospective assesment from secondary data bases

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
All cause unprogrammed consult to the emergency department	1 year	First emergency department consults from secondary data base in 1 year retrospective
All cause unprogrammed admissions to hospital	1 year	First all cause unprogrammed admissions to hospital

Countries

Argentina

Contacts

Primary ContactDiego H Giunta, MD

diego.giunta@hospitalitaliano.org.ar(5411)4959-0200

Backup ContactAgustina Briatore, MD

agusbriatore@gmail.com(5411)4959-0200

Outcome results