Analysis of Emergency Department Visits According to Incidence of Covid-19

Analysis of Emergency Department Visits According to Incidence of Covid-19 in French Metropolis : a One-year Multicenter Observational Retrospective Study.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT05126641

Enrollment

400000

Registered

2021-11-19

Start date

2020-05-13

Completion date

2021-05-04

Last updated

2021-11-23

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Conditions

Emergency Service, Hospital, Epidemiology

Keywords

Non-Covid-19 visits, Emergency departments visits, Incidence of Covid-19

Brief summary

With lockdown, Emergency Departments (ED) visits decrease, principally for visits unrelated with Covid-19. In this study, the investigators aimed to find a correlation between ED visits and incidence rate of Covid-19 in a French metropolis.

Detailed description

All patients older than 18 years were included in 9 ED during 51 weeks. Patients transferred between the centers participating in the study were excluded. The investigators count the number of visits per weeks, then the number of visits according to : * reason for consultation Covid-like (cough, fever or dyspnea), * reason for consultation with accordance to French Emergency Medicine Society (SFMU) reference * diagnosis with accordance to SFMU reference * orientation (home, medical unit, chirurgical unit, intensive care unit, psychiatric unit, death) Pearson's correlation test compare incidence rate per week with this counts and admission rate.

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

* patients over 18 years old

Exclusion criteria

* patient who are transferred between centers participating to the study.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
non-Covid-19 visit	51 weeks	Count of non-Covid-19 visit per week

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Reason for visits	51 weeks	Count of each reason for visits category according to SFMU reference
Admission rate	51 weeks	Admission rate per week
Diagnosis	51 weeks	Count of each diagnostic category according to SFMU reference
Orientation	51 weeks	Count of each orientation (home, medical unit, chirurgical unit, intensive care unit, death, psychiatric unit, other)

Other

Measure	Time frame	Description
Incidence rate of Covid 19	51 weeks	Incidence rate of Covid 19 per week

Countries

France

Outcome results