A feasibility study evaluating a risk score for the management of blunt chest wall trauma

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Specialty: Injuries and emergencies, Primary sub-specialty: Musculoskeletal Trauma; Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning; UKCRC code/ Disease: Injuries and Accidents/ Injuries to the thorax; Blunt chest wall trauma

• Registration Number: ISRCTN95571506
• Lead Sponsor: ABMU Health Board

Brief Summary

1. 2017 protocol in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28698337 (added 01/08/2019) 2. 2019 results in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31350248 (added 01/08/2019)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2016-12-05
• Study Completion: 2018-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 26 August 2019

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 176

Inclusion Criteria

1. Diagnosis of isolated blunt chest wall trauma
2. Aged 18 and over
3. Capable of giving consent to participation
4. Male or female
5. Presenting to the Emergency Department of participating hospital

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients under the age of 18 years
2. Patients who lack capacity to give informed consent,
3. Patients with any immediately life-threatening injuries
4. Patients with any concurrent injury that will determine the patient’s management (rather than the chest trauma)

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient recruitment rate will be recorded as the number of eligible patients who consent to trial participation at the end of the five month data collection period, at each site.