• Gerard M O'Reilly, Rob D Mitchell, Michael P Noonan, Ryan Hiller, Biswadev Mitra, Lisa Brichko, Carl Luckhoff, Andrew Paton, SmitDe VilliersVEmergency and Trauma Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia., Mark J Santamaria, and Peter A Cameron.
• Emergency and Trauma Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• Emerg Med Australas. 2020 Jun 1; 32 (3): 511514511-514.

ObjectivesThere 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.MethodsThe 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.ResultsOutcomes measured include being COVID-19 positive and requiring intensive respiratory support. Regression methodology will be used to generate clinical prediction tools.ConclusionThis project will support EDs during this pandemic.© 2020 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

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