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. 2024 Apr 26;32(1):37.
doi: 10.1186/s13049-024-01206-0.

The skåne emergency medicine (SEM) cohort

Ulf Ekelund  1 , Bodil Ohlsson  2 , Olle Melander  2 , Jonas Björk  3   4 , Mattias Ohlsson  5   6 , Jakob Lundager Forberg  7 , Pontus Olsson de Capretz  8 , Axel Nyström  3   5 , Anders Björkelund  5
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The skåne emergency medicine (SEM) cohort

Ulf Ekelund et al. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. .

Abstract

Background: In the European Union alone, more than 100 million people present to the emergency department (ED) each year, and this has increased steadily year-on-year by 2-3%. Better patient management decisions have the potential to reduce ED crowding, the number of diagnostic tests, the use of inpatient beds, and healthcare costs.

Methods: We have established the Skåne Emergency Medicine (SEM) cohort for developing clinical decision support systems (CDSS) based on artificial intelligence or machine learning as well as traditional statistical methods. The SEM cohort consists of 325 539 unselected unique patients with 630 275 visits from January 1st, 2017 to December 31st, 2018 at eight EDs in the region Skåne in southern Sweden. Data on sociodemographics, previous diseases and current medication are available for each ED patient visit, as well as their chief complaint, test results, disposition and the outcome in the form of subsequent diagnoses, treatments, healthcare costs and mortality within a follow-up period of at least 30 days, and up to 3 years.

Discussion: The SEM cohort provides a platform for CDSS research, and we welcome collaboration. In addition, SEM's large amount of real-world patient data with almost complete short-term follow-up will allow research in epidemiology, patient management, diagnostics, prognostics, ED crowding, resource allocation, and social medicine.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Database; Decision-making; Emergency department; Emergency medicine; Machine learning.

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Conflict of interest statement

None of the authors declare competing interests.

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