Informing emergency care for COVID-19 patients: The COVID-19 Emergency Department Quality Improvement Project protocol

Emerg Med Australas. 2020 Jun;32(3):511-514. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13513. Epub 2020 Apr 21.

Abstract

Objectives: There is an urgency to support Australian ED clinicians with real-time tools as the COVID-19 pandemic evolves. The COVID-19 Emergency Department (COVED) Quality Improvement Project has commenced and will provide flexible and responsive clinical tools to determine the predictors of key ED-relevant clinical outcomes.

Methods: The COVED Project includes all adult patients presenting to a participating ED and meeting contemporary testing criteria for COVID-19. The dataset has been embedded in the electronic medical record and the COVED Registry has been developed.

Results: Outcomes measured include being COVID-19 positive and requiring intensive respiratory support. Regression methodology will be used to generate clinical prediction tools.

Conclusion: This project will support EDs during this pandemic.

Keywords: COVID-19; emergency; registry.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
  • Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
  • Coronavirus Infections / therapy
  • Coronavirus* / isolation & purification
  • Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control
  • Electronic Health Records*
  • Emergency Service, Hospital
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
  • Pandemics / prevention & control*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / therapy
  • Program Development / methods*
  • Public Health
  • Public Health Surveillance / methods*
  • Quality Improvement*
  • Quality of Health Care
  • Registries*
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Triage / methods