Older Emergency Department Users and Hospitalization After an Index Visit: Results of ER2 Database

Overview

This study evaluates the recommendations of a screening tool called: ER2 (Emergency Room Evaluation and Recommendations Form).This stool is used in Emergency Department by nurses, and it supposes to measure patient risk score.

Study Type

  • Study Type: Observational
  • Study Design
    • Time Perspective: Prospective
  • Study Primary Completion Date: May 1, 2022

Detailed Description

Crowding and delay became chronic conditions in emergency departments (EDs) in high income countries. Emergency medicine has the mandate to provide care to any patient requesting treatment 24 hours a day. As there is a lack of primary care physicians who are able to provide the necessary care to patients, they are forced to seek care in ED. Among these ED users, more and more patients are aged over 65 and account for up to a quarter of all ED users. Older ED users comparted to their younger counterparts are more at risk for long length of stay in ED and hospital, and hospital admission during an index ED visit. The occurrence of these short-terms adverse events may be reduced if older ED users risk is assessed upon their ED arrival. Few studies have examined risk for short-terms adverse events. They suggested that clinical tools based on a brief geriatric assessment with timely appropriate interventions could reduce the occurrence of short-terms ED adverse events.

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Observational
    • The participants of this study will be seen at Emergency Department, and a nurse will perform a test called ER2 ( Emergency Room Evaluation and Recommendation).

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Long length of hospital stay
    • Time Frame: Around 10 months
    • Long length of hospital stay represents an indicator of efficiency, and it refers to the average number of day that a patient spends in hospital.

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • Being 75 years and over – Brought at Emergency on medical stretcher Exclusion Criteria:

  • Being less than 75 years old – Never come at Emergency

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 75 Years

Maximum Age: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Jewish General Hospital
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Principal Investigator: Olivier Beauchet, MD, Professor of Geriatrics – Jewish General Hospital
  • Overall Official(s)
    • Olivier Beauchet, MD, Principal Investigator, Jewish General Hospital

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