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ED Adaptive Staffing Study

NCT05937763 · Status: RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 5917

Last updated 2024-03-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Emergency Departments (EDs) across Ontario are being inundated with unprecedented high patient volumes and a staffing shortage that directly impacts patient care and flow. An area of concern among EDs is the offload zone where patients are brought in by ambulance. EMS offload time is the time it takes paramedics to transfer a patient to the appropriate area within an emergency department and give hospital staff a summary of what concerns the patient is seeking care for. There are multiple factors that may delay this time, including limited staff in the offload area to complete the transfer process due to competing patient care responsibilities. The adaptive staffing model study will look to add a primary care paramedic (PCP) or a registered nurse (RN) in the offload zone during times of high ambulance volume (August to January) to help with patient care within the offload zone. This single-centered community hospital study will evaluate the benefits of having a PCP or RN, compared to the current model, on ambulance offload times, patient safety outcomes, patient treatment times, and staff well-being using three different models of staffing.

Conditions

  • Emergency Medicine
  • Well-Being, Psychological

Interventions

OTHER

Staffing model

Staffing the hospitals emergency department offload zone with a PCP or RN or current workflow.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Oak Valley Health

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-10-02
Primary Completion
2024-03-31
Completion
2024-09-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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