The Use of Hospital and Emergency Department of Refugee Patients

Nevsehir Public Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Refugees; Outpatients; Health Care; Emergency Departments

Treatments: Other: Refugee patients

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03528239

Nevşehir

Details and patient eligibility

About

After Middle Eastern crisis, millions people were forced to migrate to European countries and especially neighboring countries. In Turkey, cities which are closed to east of border, face to cope more refugees' health care than those of other cities. The incidence of admission of hospital outpatient clinics and emergency department by refugee patients is not known clearly in our city, Nevsehir. In this study, we wanted to investigate use of health care among these patients in Nevsehir in Turkey.

Enrollment: 10,000 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All patients who visited an outpatient clinic and emergency department.

Exclusion criteria

Patients who have missing records.