Missed Serious Medical Illness in Psychiatric Patients Seen in an Academic Emergency Department

Lawson Health Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychiatric Patients, Serious Medical Illness

Treatments: Other: admission to non-psychiatric service

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02589951

REB 107073

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence, etiology, and timing of missed Serious Medical Illness (SMI) in patients referred to adult psychiatry by emergency physicians, as well as to determine admission rates for SMI soon after discharge from an inpatient psychiatry admission.

Enrollment: 2,200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients greater than or equal to 18 years of age presenting to London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria Hospital emergency department between October 1, 2014 - July 31, 2015 who were referred to adult psychiatry by the emergency physician.

Exclusion criteria

• None