Does Assessment of Ambulance Medical Service Leads to Reduced Number of Transports to the Emergency Room?

Assessment Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03466905
• Other study ID #: Dnr 2016/393
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 12, 2017
• Last updated: March 14, 2018
• Start date: November 7, 2016
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: March 2018
• Source: Dalarna County Council, Sweden
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

There is a need to reduce the number of ambulance transports to the Emergency Room to the patients who are not in need of urgent medical care. There are currently no studies and the aim of the study is to investigate if the ambulance transports to the Emergency Room can be reduced by a dialogue between a Registered Nurse in ambulance and a Medical Doctor in the Primary Care (called "Ambulant assessment"). In this connection there is also a need to follow up patients that not have been transported to the Emergency Room, secondary ambulance transport, relapse within 48 hours, type of examination and treatment and mortality.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients >18 years

• ambulance missions in the Community of Borlänge/Falun (case) and Community of Leksand (control)

• weekday and weekend, 08:00 to 22:00

• initially evaluated not to need urgent Medical care according RETTS

Exclusion Criteria:

• initially evaluated need urgent Medical care according RETTS

• the patient unable to give consent to the study

• patient with existing care plan

• ambulance mission without patient

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Assessment
• Emergencies
• Emergency Medical Service
• Registered Nurse

Intervention

Other:
• Ambulant assessment

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	County Council of Dalarna	Falun	Dalarna

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Dalarna County Council, Sweden	County Council of Halland, Sweden

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of visits to the Emergency Room		Up to 24 months