the Patients Journey Through Surgical Admission Ward Versus Emergency Department

University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Waiting Time in Emergency Department

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01733511

SLB-ED-03-2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

Emergency departments are established in 20 hospitals in Denmark in order to improve the quality for the acute patients.

A group of acute patients which require timely assessment and plan from a specialist is patients with abdominal pain.

the aim of the present study is to evaluate whether the admission of the group of patients to emergency departments reduces the time to doctor, specialist and plan compared to the traditional admission to a surgical acute ward.

Enrollment: 109 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• age more than 15 years

Exclusion Criteria:

Trial design

109 participants in 2 patient groups

admitted to emergency department

patients admitted to surgical ward