CompletedNot Applicable

Prediction of the Patient Pathway in Emergency Room in an Exceptional Sanitary Situation

France1,516 participantsStarted 2020-12-04

Plain-language summary

The COVID-19 outbreak leads to optimize the pathway in emergency departments. The length of time spent in the Emergency Department is linked to the morbi-mortality and the risk of COVID-19 transmission. The Amiens-Picardy University Hospital has developed an application (3P-U) that optimizes patient flow. It identifies the need of hospitalization and problems on the care path. Patients are categorized in high risk or not high probabilty of hospitalization. The main goal of this project is to evaluate the impact on the patient flow of the 3P-U application. Early lookup of bed for high probability hospitalization should be linked to a reduced time of length. This study will compare the time of length between this both groups.

Who can participate

Age range

18 Years

Sex

ALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * every patient that consults in the Adult Emergency Department Exclusion Criteria: * patients directly transferred to Intensive Care Units

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What they're measuring

Variation of the length of stay between high probability of hospitalization group and not high risk of hospitalization group.

Timeframe: up to 3 months

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04665778

SponsorCentre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2021-03-01

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