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
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method