Medical Patients in the Emergency Department Clinical Trial
Official title:
Combined Use of the National Early Warning Score and D-dimer to Identify Medical Patients at Low Risk of 30-day Mortality in a Danish Emergency Department
The aim is to determine if the National Early Warning Score combined with plasma D-dimer levels can be used in risk stratification of acutely ill medical patients presenting to a Danish Emergency Department. The investigators wish to identify patients at low risk of mortality within 30 days.
Large increases in emergency admissions are raising concerns about whether all admissions are
necessary. If there was a fast and reliable system that could be used to determine the risk
of all medical patients, many low-risk patients could be safely returned to primary care or
outpatient follow-up clinics.
The investigators wish to determine, if the combination of the National Early Warning Score
and plasma D-dimer levels can be used to identify patients at low risk of mortality within 30
days in an unselected group of medical patients presenting to a Danish Emergency Department.
This is a prospective observational study that will be performed on adult medical patients
referred to the Emergency Department of a Danish hospital to be assessed for possible
admission. The study will be performed in the Emergency Department of Hospital of South West
Jutland in the region of Southern Denmark.
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