Evaluation of the Quality of Care in the Emergency Department by Studying the Appropriateness of Hospitalizations

Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Appropriateness; Emergency Department; Evaluation; Quality of Care

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06846879

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to develop, study and validate a rigorous and sustainable method for assessing the clinical appropriateness of the decision taken in the Emergency Department to admit or not to admit patients.

Full description

The information normally recorded in the Emergency Department medical record will be used, as well as the available clinical and administrative databases. For reasons of feasibility, the investigators will also restrict the analysis to patients coming to the Emergency Department with non-specific manifestations in the pulmonary, cardiovascular and abdominal districts, represented by one or more of the following symptoms: dyspnoea, chest pain, transient loss of consciousness, abdominal pain.

Enrollment: 240,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All patients aged 18 years and over who arrived at participating centres between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2024.

Exclusion criteria

All patients under 18 years of age arriving at participating centers between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024 and all patients arriving at participating centers outside the time frame January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2024.

Trial design

240,000 participants in 1 patient group

Elegible population

Description:

All patients aged 18 years and over who arrived at participating centres between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2024.