Evidence-Based Tele-Emergency Network Grant Program

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Critical Illness

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of an existing tele-emergency care network on quality of care, appropriateness of care utilization, patient safety (medication errors), and cost effectiveness compared to telephone consultations from a healthcare system prospective.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02877810

Run by

University of California, Davis

People needed

696

Starts

2015-11-01

Expected to finish

2019-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-10-30

Who can join

Age: any, up to 14. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Children younger than or equal to 14 years of age at the time of their ED visit.

You may not qualify if…

• Children evaluated at the ED for non-medical reasons such as elective surgeries and social reasons (i.e., cases of possible endangerment) and other non-medical reasons.
• Children evaluated at the ED preoperatively, for elective surgical procedures.
• Children transferred to the ED from another hospital ED.
• Children transiently "held" in the ED in the process of a direct admission to the ward.

Where it is running

• University of California, Davis, Medical Center — Sacramento, California, United States

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