Clinical trial NCT05126641: Analysis of Emergency Department Visits According to Incidence of Covid-19
Official title: Analysis of Emergency Department Visits According to Incidence of Covid-19 in French Metropolis : a One-year Multicenter Observational Retrospective Study.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Emergency Service, Hospital
Epidemiology
Keywords: Non-Covid-19 visits
Emergency departments visits
Incidence of Covid-19
Lead sponsor: Centre Hospitalier de Roubaix
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University Hospital, Lille
First posted: 2021-11-19
Enrollment: 400000
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: All patients visited one of 9 emergency department.

Brief summary: With lockdown, Emergency Departments (ED) visits decrease, principally for visits unrelated with Covid-19. In this study, the investigators aimed to find a correlation between ED visits and incidence rate of Covid-19 in a French metropolis.

Detailed description: All patients older than 18 years were included in 9 ED during 51 weeks. Patients transferred between the centers participating in the study were excluded.

The investigators count the number of visits per weeks, then the number of visits according to :

* reason for consultation Covid-like (cough, fever or dyspnea),
* reason for consultation with accordance to French Emergency Medicine Society (SFMU) reference
* diagnosis with accordance to SFMU reference
* orientation (home, medical unit, chirurgical unit, intensive care unit, psychiatric unit, death)

Pearson's correlation test compare incidence rate per week with this counts and admission rate.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* patients over 18 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

* patient who are transferred between centers participating to the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: non-Covid-19 visit
timeFrame: 51 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Reason for visits
timeFrame: 51 weeks
measure: Admission rate
timeFrame: 51 weeks
measure: Diagnosis
timeFrame: 51 weeks
measure: Orientation
timeFrame: 51 weeks
Other outcomes:
measure: Incidence rate of Covid 19
timeFrame: 51 weeks
Locations:
city: Armentières
country: France
facility: Emergency Department, General Hospital
state: Nord
city: Hazebrouck
country: France
facility: Emergency Department, General Hospital
state: Nord
city: Lille
country: France
facility: Emergency Department, University Hospital
state: Nord
city: Lomme
country: France
facility: Emergency Department, GHICL Saint-Philibert
state: Nord
city: Roubaix
country: France
facility: Emergency Department, General Hospital
state: Nord
city: Seclin
country: France
facility: Emergency Department, General Hospital
state: Nord
city: Tourcoing
country: France
facility: Emergency Department, General Hospital
state: Nord
city: Lille
country: France
facility: Emergency Department, GHICL Saint-Vincent
Study officials:
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