Active clinical trials for "Emergencies"

This study is planning to develop the audiovisual videos and determine whether educational videos are superior to routine discussion for informing trauma patients in emergency department (ED) about risks, benefits, and alternatives to receiving surgery.

The objective of this study is to design, implement and test quality improvement measures to improve the care of adults with sickle cell disease in the emergency department.

Morphine is the gold standard for treatment of severe acute pain but it has a number of adverse effects. No study has so far managed to identify the morphine-induced adverse drug reactions. The primary objective of this study is to determine predictive factors of morphine-induced adverse drug reaction when it is used in emergency departments.

This project proposes administer and evaluate via a randomized controlled trail a text message-based appointment reminder system to promote attendance at clinic appointments after ED discharge.

Patient safety is an internationally recognized health care priority. Canadian data suggests that about 8% of adults admitted to hospital experience unintended harm (or 'adverse events') from the health care provided during their hospital stay. On a national level, this represents almost 25,000 preventable deaths among hospitalized adults each year. The emergency department is recognized as a high-risk environment for adverse events but most patient safety research is not specific to the emergency department. As well, the vast majority of people treated in the emergency department are sent home after their visit; yet safety research focuses primarily on people who are admitted to hospital. Finally, although children have also been identified as particularly high risk for suffering adverse events, very little research has been done on how often these events occur among children who visit the emergency department. Our study will address this gap in our knowledge about patient safety and provide important information on the frequency, severity and preventability of adverse events occurring among children in the emergency department. This information will help us to improve the safety of emergency department care for all Canadian children.

This study is planning to develop the computed-assisted information program and determine whether the computed-assisted information program are superior to routine discussion for informing parents in the emergency department (ED) about risks, benefits, and alternatives to receiving procedural sedation for their children.

New York-Presbyterian Hospital has created a system that notifies its primary care providers whenever their patients are admitted to the hospital. In this study, the investigators want to evaluate how accurate this system is and how it is affecting the primary providers and their health care delivery.

The purpose of this study is to see how often women who come to a family planning clinic for emergency contraception, the morning after pill, are willing to use either the copper IUD or the levonorgestrel IUD. The investigators will also see if pregnancies occur in those choosing the levonorgestrel IUD and if people continue to use the IUD for 1 year.

This is the statistical analysis plan for an individual patient data meta-analysis (IPDMA) of three EGDT clinical trials.

Thoracic pain is the main symptom of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), urgent and serious illness. Whereas hospital mortality decreased until reaching 10%, out-of-hospital mortality remains high: half of the deaths occur during the first two hours. The benefit of an early diagnosis of ACS in term of morbidity and mortality is well established. Identification of the coronary origin of a thoracic pain by the telephone triage physician of the pre-hospital emergency service (SAMU) leads to the sending of a physician staffed ambulance (UMH) and is thus a key element of the prognosis. The aim of the study is to build a telephone predictive score of ACS at the triage of calls for non traumatic thoracic pain. The separate analysis of the questionnaires by sex will authorize the validation of a unique score or two distinct scores for men and women.