Emergency Medicine Diagnostic and Treatment Units. Abstract, Executive Summaryand Final Report

摘要

For patients with moderately severe asthma, accelerated therapy in an EmergencyObservation Unit was compared to hospitalization in a prospective trial of 224 patients aged 18-55, who were randomly assigned to a nine hour ED-based protocol of hospital admission. For the primary outcome of patient asthma relapse over 8 weeks, there were no differences (p = 0.74) between the ED and hospitalized groups. There were significant differences favoring the ED protocol for patient