Older Emergency Department Users and Hospitalization After an Index Visit: Results of ER2 Database

Jewish General Hospital

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Chronic Conditions, Multiple; Medical Emergencies

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04017273

2020-1882

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the recommendations of a screening tool called: ER2 (Emergency Room Evaluation and Recommendations Form).This stool is used in Emergency Department by nurses, and it supposes to measure patient risk score.

Full description

Crowding and delay became chronic conditions in emergency departments (EDs) in high income countries. Emergency medicine has the mandate to provide care to any patient requesting treatment 24 hours a day. As there is a lack of primary care physicians who are able to provide the necessary care to patients, they are forced to seek care in ED. Among these ED users, more and more patients are aged over 65 and account for up to a quarter of all ED users. Older ED users comparted to their younger counterparts are more at risk for long length of stay in ED and hospital, and hospital admission during an index ED visit. The occurrence of these short-terms adverse events may be reduced if older ED users risk is assessed upon their ED arrival. Few studies have examined risk for short-terms adverse events. They suggested that clinical tools based on a brief geriatric assessment with timely appropriate interventions could reduce the occurrence of short-terms ED adverse events.

Enrollment: 10,971 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being 75 years and over
• Brought at Emergency on medical stretcher

Exclusion criteria

• Being less than 75 years old
• Never come at Emergency

Trial design

10,971 participants in 1 patient group

Observational

Description:

The participants of this study will be seen at Emergency Department, and a nurse will perform a test called ER2 ( Emergency Room Evaluation and Recommendation).