NCT05126641

Analysis of Emergency Department Visits According to Incidence of Covid-19

Analysis of Emergency Department Visits According to Incidence of Covid-19 in French Metropolis : a One-year Multicenter Observational Retrospective Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 400,000 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier de Roubaix · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

With lockdown, Emergency Departments (ED) visits decrease, principally for visits unrelated with Covid-19. In this study, the investigators aimed to find a correlation between ED visits and incidence rate of Covid-19 in a French metropolis.

Detailed description

All patients older than 18 years were included in 9 ED during 51 weeks. Patients transferred between the centers participating in the study were excluded. The investigators count the number of visits per weeks, then the number of visits according to : * reason for consultation Covid-like (cough, fever or dyspnea), * reason for consultation with accordance to French Emergency Medicine Society (SFMU) reference * diagnosis with accordance to SFMU reference * orientation (home, medical unit, chirurgical unit, intensive care unit, psychiatric unit, death) Pearson's correlation test compare incidence rate per week with this counts and admission rate.

Conditions

• Emergency Service, Hospital
• Epidemiology

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-05-13
• Primary completion: 2021-05-04
• Completion: 2021-05-04
• First posted: 2021-11-19
• Last updated: 2021-11-23

Locations

8 sites across 1 country: France