Validating the Emergency Department Avoidability Classification (EDAC): A cluster randomized single-blinded agreement study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Emergency Department Avoidability Classification (EDAC) retrospectively classifies emergency department (ED) visits that could have been safely managed in subacute primary care settings, but has not been validated against a criterion standard. A validated EDAC could enable accurate and reliable quantification of avoidable ED visits. We compared agreement between the EDAC and ED physician judgements to specify avoidable ED visits.

Materials and methods

We conducted a cluster randomized, single-blinded agreement study in an academic hospital in Hamilton, Canada. ED visits between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2019 were clustered based on EDAC classes and randomly sampled evenly. A total of 160 ED visit charts were randomly assigned to ten participating ED

SUBMITTER: Strum RP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10805301 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature