Risk for Short-term Adverse Events in Older Emergency Department Users

Jewish General Hospital

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Older People; Health Care; Evaluations; Health Impairment

Treatments: Other: Emergency Room Evaluation Tool (ER2)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03964311

2020-1726

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the association between risk levels (i.e.; low, moderate and high) of Emergency Room Tool (ER2) and length of stay in older Emergency Room Tool (ER) users admitted to the medical or surgery wards of the Jewish General Hospital.

Full description

The Emergency Room Tool (ER2) assessment can be used by Emergency Department nurses taking care of older Emergency Department (ED) users on stretcher, and that ER2 moderate and high risk levels is associated with long length of stay in Emergency Department and hospital as well as hospital admissions.

Enrollment: 5,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being 75 years and over
• An unplanned Emergency Department visit and to be on a stretcher.

Exclusion criteria

-Being 74 years and less

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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5,000 participants in 1 patient group

Emergency Room Evaluation Tool (ER2)

Other group

Description:

Patients who are 75 years and over, and who are brought to Emergency in stretchers will be evaluated based on the Emergency Room Evaluation Tool (ER2).

Treatment:

Other: Emergency Room Evaluation Tool (ER2)