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Predictors for Admission to Emergency Department More Than 48 Hours

NCT01723449 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 730

Last updated 2016-02-17

No results posted yet for this study

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.

Conditions

  • Length of Admission

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Southern Denmark

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-11-30
Primary Completion
2013-09-30
Completion
2013-10-31

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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