Cross Checking to Reduce Adverse Events in the Emergency Department

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 16 December 2017
• Main ID: NCT02356926
• Date of registration: 02/02/2015
• Prospective Registration: Yes
• Primary sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
• Public title: Cross Checking to Reduce Adverse Events in the Emergency Department Charmed
• Scientific title: Cross Checking to Reduce Adverse Events Resulting From Medical Errors in the Emergency Department
• Date of first enrolment: February 2016
• Target sample size: 1680
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02356926
• Study type: Observational
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

France

Contacts

• Name: Yonathan Freund
• Affiliation: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- All patients that visit the ED during one of the two periods of recruitment, monday to
friday between 8:30am and 4:30pm, will be screened for inclusion. We chose this time
interval as they correspond to period that can be exposed to a cross checking, which
will occur at 11:30 am, 2:00 pm and 4:30 pm.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients whose care is not provided by an EP (for example psychiatrist or
maxillo-facial surgeon)

- Scheduled return attendance to the ED

- Low severity, defined by

1. Triage level 5 on a 1 to 5 scale 13,14

2. Patients referred to a "minor" or "fast track" unit

3. Patients discharged home less than 1 hours after first contact with an EP



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Emergency Patients

Primary Outcome(s)

Rate of adverse events and preventable adverse events in the 7 days after admission to the emergency [Time Frame: 7 days]

Secondary ID(s)

CRC13074

NI14017

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors