No registrations found.
ID
Source
Health condition
Crowding, Netherland, Dutch, Emergency Department, Patient characteristics
Sponsors and support
Gideon Latten, Emergency Physician (founder),
Zuyderland Medisch Centrum, (organisation)
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
Patient characteristics/factors which are associated with a length of stay of 4 hours or longer.
Secondary outcome
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Background summary
Emergency Department crowding is a problem which arises worldwide. Compared to other Western countries there does not seem to be a major crowding problem in the Netherlands yet, but there are publications that suggest that there is an increasing frequency of crowding in the Dutch Emergency Departments.
Crowding and a longer length of stay are associated with negative patient related outcomes.
To date there has not been any study which investigates the patient characteristics which are associated with a longer length of stay in the Emergency Department in the Netherlands.
The aim of this study is to identify the patient characteristics which are associated with a longer length of stay in the Emergency Department in a large general hospital in the Netherlands
Study design
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Intervention
No interventions.
Comparison of the patient group with a length of stay shorter than 4 hours with the patient group with a length of stay of 4 hours or longer.
Inclusion criteria
All patients which visited our Emergency Department in 2014.
There will be two groups, a group with a length of stay shorter than 4 hours and a group with a lenth of stay of 4 hours or longer.
Exclusion criteria
Patients without registration of time of arrival or departure.
Patients with an unreliable length of stay.
The patients registered in our database, but that actually were admitted to the emergency cardiac care.
Design
Recruitment
Followed up by the following (possibly more current) registration
No registrations found.
Other (possibly less up-to-date) registrations in this register
No registrations found.
In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL5497 |
| NTR-old | NTR5819 |
| Other | METC : 16-N-07 |