Physician-nurse Team to Reduce Emergency Department (ED) Overcrowding

University Hospitals (UH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Triage

Treatments: Behavioral: Physician-nurse team supervision

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01219868

SU-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to explore the impact of a physician-nurse team supervising patient's flow on ED length of stay

Full description

A physician-nurse team will be in charge of patients flow in the ED during intervention periods. During control periods, no team will be present. The impact of this team on Ed length of stay will be assessed.

Enrollment: 8,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all adult patients > 16 years presenting to the ED

Exclusion criteria

• no

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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8,000 participants in 1 patient group

Physician-nurse team

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Physician-nurse team supervision