Predictive Tracking of Patient Flow in the Emergency Services During the Virus Winter Epidemics (PREDAFLU)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

Status: Completed

Conditions: Disease Outbreaks; Bronchiolitis; Child; Elderly; Acute Renal Failure

Treatments: Other: data retrieval

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02858531

1508191

1969303 v 0 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Epidemics and infectious diseases in general, punctuate much of the activity of an emergency service. The impact of winter infections is particularly important to vulnerable populations such as infant during bronchiolitis epidemics and the elderly during seasonal influenza. Each year, these epidemic phenomena lead to disorganization of emergency services and healthcare teams by lack of anticipation and organizational measures in particular to manage the approval of emergency services for the most vulnerable populations requiring hospitalization.

For 2 years, the pediatric emergency department of St Etienne University Hospital has a decision support tool for the periods of winter epidemics. Through a retrospective analysis of Passages of Emergency summary, this tool provides an estimate of infants with bronchiolitis flow day to day, and the availability in real time of an abnormally high flow of patients to pediatric emergencies. These data can help to affirm that the epidemic begins in this hospital.

Enrollment: 760,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1+ month old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• child < 24 months with bronchiolitis
• elderly < 60 years with acute renal failure or breathing problem

Exclusion criteria

• refuse of transmission of their data

Trial design

760,000 participants in 1 patient group

patients < 24 months or 60 years with bronchiolitis or ARF

Description:

ARF = Acute Renal Failure

Treatment:

Other: data retrieval