Emergency departments (ED) are becoming increasingly over-crowded, with patients facing prolonged waiting times. Therefore, a safe and rapid assessment that identifies patients with low severity that could be treated as outpatients is essential for improving the workflow within the ED. The rationale of this IDEAL study is to provide guidance to safely decrease the number of hospital admissions through identification of low risk patients with the biomarker MR-proADM. This will be tested in a pilot study first.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
200
MR-proADM value together with routine clinical evaluation identifies patients with a low 14 day mortality risk who do not need to be hospitalized
Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias
Oviedo, Principality of Asturias, Spain
Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge
Barcelona, Spain
Hospital Clínico San Carlos
Madrid, Spain
Hospital Virgen Macarena
Seville, Spain
Rate of patients admitted to the hospital
Time frame: 14 days
28 days all-cause hospital re-admission (corrected for mortality)
Time frame: 28 days
Number of patients re-presenting to the ED within 28 days
Time frame: 28 days
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