Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01733511
the Patients Journey Through Surgical Admission Ward Versus Emergency Department
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 109 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Southern Denmark · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 15 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
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.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2011-02-01
- Primary completion
- 2011-12-01
- Completion
- 2012-01-01
- First posted
- 2012-11-27
- Last updated
- 2012-11-27
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01733511. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.