Clinical Trial: Development, Validation, and Clinical Trial of a Prediction Tool for High-Risk Emergency Department Revisits

U.S., Nov. 3 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07909096) titled 'Development, Validation, and Clinical Trial of a Prediction Tool for High-Risk Emergency Department Revisits' on Oct. 26.

Brief Summary: Emergency department (ED) visits have grown tremendously in Taiwan over the past few years, reaching approximately 7 million visits in 2019. This growth in ED visits has led to unprecedented levels of ED crowding, resulting in delays in care and increased morbidity and mortality in the ED. One of the complications of ED crowding is unsafe ED discharge leading to return ED visits. About 5-10% of the patients return to the ED within 3 days of the initial ED visit. Return visits are not only burdensome...