Complaints and Presumptive Diagnosis in a Danish Emergency Department

University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Final Diagnosis; Symptoms on Admission; Presumptive Diagnosis on Admission

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01747434

SLB-ED-05-2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

Acute patients in Denmark are often admitted to Emergency Departments by their General Practitioner with a presumptive diagnosis.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic value of the pre-admission presumptive diagnosis and to assess if the presumptive diagnosis could be replaced by a number of symptom-based groups.

Enrollment: 10,070 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all acute patients admitted to emergency department

Exclusion criteria