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A refugee camp in the center of Europe: clinical characteristics of asylum seekers in Brussels in September 2015

Completed
Conditions
Demographic (age, origin, gender, arrival time) and clinical characteristics (complaints, diagnoses, comorbidities, acute treatments and referrals) of asylum-seekers arriving in a refugee camp in Brussels.
Not Applicable
Registration Number
ISRCTN13523620
Lead Sponsor
Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Free University (Vrije Universiteit) Brussels
Brief Summary

1. 2016 results in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27884856 (added 29/01/2019)

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
4037
Inclusion Criteria

1. Asylum-seekers (all ages, both genders) from the Middle-East and elsewhere arriving in a refugee camp in Brussels between September 5th and October 5th, 2015
2. Self-presenting as patients to a Field Hospital organised by Doctors of the World

Exclusion Criteria

Patients with missing date of presentation, chief complaint, or single primary diagnosis, and patients not giving oral informed consent were excluded.

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
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Secondary Outcome Measures
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