Effectiveness and safety of chest pain assessment to prevent emergency admissions: ESCAPE cluster randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether introducing chest pain unit care reduces emergency admissions without increasing reattendances and admissions over the next 30 days.

Design

Cluster randomised before and after intervention trial.

Setting

14 diverse acute hospitals in the United Kingdom.

Participants

Patients attending the emergency department with acute chest pain during the year before and the year after the intervention started.

Intervention

Establishment of chest pain unit care compared with continuation of routine care.

Main outcome measures

Proportion of chest pain attendances resulting in admission; reattendances and admissions over the next 30 days; daily emergency medical admissions (all causes); and proportion of emergency department attenda

SUBMITTER: Goodacre S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1995498 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature