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Forecasting ED Overcrowding With Statistical Methods: A Prospective Validation Study

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Tampere University Hospital

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Emergencies

Treatments

Other: Early warning system for emergency department overcrowding

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to prospectively validate statistical forecasting tools that have been widely used retrospectively in forecasting ED overcrowding

Full description

Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a chronic international issue that has been repeatedly associated with detrimental treatment outcomes such increased 10-day-mortality. Forecasting future overcrowding would enable pre-emptive staffing decisions that could alleviate or prevent overcrowding along with its detrimental effects.

Over the years, several predictive algorithms have been proposed ranging from generalized linear models to state space models and, more recently, deep learning algorithms. However, the performance of these algorithms has only been reported retrospectively and the clinically significant accuracy of these algorithms remains unclear.

In this study the investigators aim to investigate the accuracy of the previously reported ED forecasting algorithms in a prospective setting analogous to the way these tools would be used if used implemented as a decision-support system in a real-life clinical setting.

Enrollment

160,000 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

16+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • All patients presenting in the Emergency Department

Exclusion criteria

  • No exclusion criteria

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Antti Roine, PhD; Jalmari Tuominen, MD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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