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Application of Geographical Information System Data in the Emergency Department, Effect on Trauma Team and Medical Emergency Team Wait

NCT02188966 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 599

Last updated 2015-12-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

In the Emergency Department Regional Hospital Horsens a monitor will display Geographical Information System data (GIS data) for all ambulances with the hospital as final destination. The location, estimated time of arrival (ETA) and urgency code for the ambulances will be showed. Furthermore the patient's name, personal identification number and the primary message received by the emergency medical dispatch center resulting in ambulance dispatch will be displayed. This may enable the coordinating nurse to optimize timing of the ad hoc trauma team and medical emergency team activation. The teams are activated if the patient's condition is assessed to be of the highest urgency and/or severity - triage 1 or "red". The coordinating nurse makes this assessment on the basis of information from the ambulance personnel and makes the decision to activate the team and when to do it. In this study the investigators want to examine if the availability of GIS data in the emergency department results in reduced waiting time for the members of the trauma team and medical emergency team. The study will be conducted as a before and after study.

Conditions

  • All Acutely Ill or Injured Patients

Interventions

DEVICE

Geographic Information System

GIS data is delivered by "SimaTech Enterprise System" communicating via the mobile network and TETRA (in Denmark called SINE). It is developed as a Java Enterprise application and is executed on a JBOSS application platform

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Regionshospitalet Horsens

    collaborator OTHER

  • Central Denmark Region

    collaborator OTHER

  • Aarhus University Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Aarhus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nikolaj Raaber, MD · Central Denmark Region

  • Erika Christensen, MD, medical director · Central Denmark Region

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-05-31
Primary Completion
2014-11-30
Completion
2014-11-30

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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