Predictors for Admission to Emergency Department More Than 48 Hours

University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Length of Admission

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01723449

SHS-ED-01-2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

In Demark acutely admitted patients are supposed to stay in the Emergency Department (ED) bed ward if the anticipated duration of stay is less than 48 hours.

However, it is not a trivial matter to estimate duration of stay for emergency patients. a number of factors affect this, eg. social background, disease, hospital organisation.

The aim of this study is to analyse whom are the best among the health staff to predict the length of stay: ED nurses, admitting doctors og the specialist, and to analyse if a number of variables can be used to improve the prediction.

Enrollment: 730 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

all patients admitted to the Emergency Department -

Exclusion criteria

Children less than 15 years patients transferred from other hospitals