Risk for Short-term Adverse Events in Older Emergency Department Users

Older People Clinical Trial

Official title:

Risk for Short-term Adverse Events in Older Emergency Department Users: '' Emergency Room Evaluation and Recommendation '' Cohort Study Database

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03964311
• Other study ID #: 2020-1726
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 4, 2019
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: February 2024
• Source: Jewish General Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study evaluates the association between risk levels (i.e.; low, moderate and high) of Emergency Room Tool (ER2) and length of stay in older Emergency Room Tool (ER) users admitted to the medical or surgery wards of the Jewish General Hospital.

Description:

The Emergency Room Tool (ER2) assessment can be used by Emergency Department nurses taking care of older Emergency Department (ED) users on stretcher, and that ER2 moderate and high risk levels is associated with long length of stay in Emergency Department and hospital as well as hospital admissions.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 5000
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: December 1, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 75 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being 75 years and over

• An unplanned Emergency Department visit and to be on a stretcher.

Exclusion Criteria:

-Being 74 years and less

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Emergencies
• Evaluations
• Health Care
• Health Impairment
• Older People

Intervention

Other:
• Emergency Room Evaluation Tool (ER2)
Emergency Room Evaluation Tool represents a screening method that will be used at the Emergency by nurses. This tool evaluates the health conditions of all the patients who are 75 years and over.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Jewish General Hospital	Montréal	Quebec

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Jewish General Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Short-term adverse events	By using the Emergency Room Evaluation Tool( ER2), we will indirectly evaluate the length of hospital stay. The calculation will be done in days and hours.	In around 30 days
Secondary	Usability of assessment tool	Patients at Emergency Room will be valuated by using the Emergency Room Evaluation Tool(ER2). Based on the ER2 results, it would be evaluated the usability of the Emergency Room screening tool.	24 hours in Emergency