Non Attendance at Scheduled Appointments as a Marker of Mortality and Hospital Admission

Mortality Clinical Trial

Official title:

Non Attendance at Scheduled Appointments as a Marker of Visits in the Emergency Department, Hospitalization and Mortality

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02210637
• Other study ID #: 2301
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 13, 2014
• Last updated: December 16, 2015
• Start date: December 2015
• Est. completion date: December 2017

Study information

• Verified date: December 2015
• Source: Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
• Contact: Diego H Giunta, MD
• Phone: (5411)4959-0200
• Email: diego.giunta[@]hospitalitaliano.org.ar
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Argentina: Human Research Bioethics Committee
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial 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.

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

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 177083
• Est. completion date: December 2017
• Est. primary completion date: December 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Over 17 years.

• Adults who attended, did not attend a scheduled appointment at the Outpatient care system at the Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires (HIBA)

Exclusion Criteria:

• The refusal to register or to the informed consent process.

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Appointments and Schedules
• Emergencies
• Emergency Department
• Hospitalization
• Mortality
• Outpatient Clinics, Hospital/Economics

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Argentina	Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires	Capital Federal

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Argentina, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	All cause mortality	Mortality of all causes retrospective assesment from secondary data bases	1 year	No
Secondary	All cause unprogrammed consult to the emergency department	First emergency department consults from secondary data base in 1 year retrospective	1 year	No
Secondary	All cause unprogrammed admissions to hospital	First all cause unprogrammed admissions to hospital	1 year	No