Analysis of Emergency Department Visits According to Incidence of Covid-19

Centre Hospitalier de Roubaix

Status

Completed

Conditions

Epidemiology

Emergency Service, Hospital

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05126641

2021-004

921296 (Other Identifier)

4714175 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

With lockdown, Emergency Departments (ED) visits decrease, principally for visits unrelated with Covid-19. In this study, the investigators aimed to find a correlation between ED visits and incidence rate of Covid-19 in a French metropolis.

Full description

All patients older than 18 years were included in 9 ED during 51 weeks. Patients transferred between the centers participating in the study were excluded.

The investigators count the number of visits per weeks, then the number of visits according to :

reason for consultation Covid-like (cough, fever or dyspnea),
reason for consultation with accordance to French Emergency Medicine Society (SFMU) reference
diagnosis with accordance to SFMU reference
orientation (home, medical unit, chirurgical unit, intensive care unit, psychiatric unit, death)

Pearson's correlation test compare incidence rate per week with this counts and admission rate.

Enrollment

400,000 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria