Predictors for Admission to Emergency Department More Than 48 Hours

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Length of Admission

Age range

15 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Aabenraa Sygehus Emergency Department

Aabenraa, 6200, Denmark

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

all patients admitted to the Emergency Department -

Exclusion criteria

Children less than 15 years patients transferred from other hospitals

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

length of admission in hours

Time frame: admission to discharge

participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of 76 hours

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Southern Denmark

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2012
Primary completion: 2013
Study completion: 2013
First posted: Nov 7, 2012
Registry last updated: Feb 17, 2016

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