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UnknownNCT02210637
Non Attendance at Scheduled Appointments as a Marker of Mortality and Hospital Admission
Non Attendance at Scheduled Appointments as a Marker of Visits in the Emergency Department, Hospitalization and Mortality
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 177,083 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
To evaluate the association of non attendance at scheduled appointments with visits in the emergency department, hospitalizations and mortality during one year follow up.
Detailed description
Nonattendance at scheduled appointments at outpatient clinics is a common problem in general medical practice, representing a significant cost to the health care system, and resulting in disruption of daily work planning.Nonattendance at medical appointments has consequences not only for doctors (as it requires a greater use of resources and time), but also for patients, because there may be deterioration in the quality of care, and dissatisfaction associated with delays in obtaining a new appointment
Conditions
- Appointments and Schedules
- Outpatient Clinics, Hospital/Economics
- Emergency Department
- Hospitalization
- Mortality
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-12-01
- Primary completion
- 2016-12-01
- Completion
- 2017-12-01
- First posted
- 2014-08-07
- Last updated
- 2015-12-17
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Argentina
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02210637. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.