NCT03528239

The Use of Hospital and Emergency Department of Refugee Patients

The Use of Hospital Outpatient Clinics and Emergency Department by Refugee Patients in Turkey

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 10,000 (actual)
• Sponsor: Nevsehir Public Hospital · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Refugees
• Health Care
• Outpatients
• Emergency Departments

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Refugee patients	To investigate characteristics of outpatient visits of refugee patients

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-31
• Completion: 2018-05-31
• First posted: 2018-05-17
• Last updated: 2018-09-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)