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The Diagnostic Value of the First Clinical Impression of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department (PREKEYDIA)

Completed
Conditions
Emergencies
Interventions
Diagnostic Test: Machine Learning Prediction
Registration Number
NCT05597059
Lead Sponsor
Kepler University Hospital
Brief Summary

Finding a diagnosis for acutely ill patients places high demands on emergency medical personnel. While anamnesis and clinical examination provide initial indications and allow a tentative diagnosis, both laboratory chemistry and imaging tests are used to confirm (or exclude) the tentative diagnosis. The more precise and targeted the additional laboratory chemical or radiological diagnosis, the more quickly and economically the causal treatment of the emergency patient can be initiated.

One examination modality, which in addition to the medical history and clinical examination, could quickly provide information about the condition of the patient, their clinical picture and severity of illness, is the first clinical impression of the patient (so-called "first impression" or "end-of-bed view"). This describes the first sensory impression that the medical staff gathers from a patient. This includes visual (e.g., facial expression, gait, breathing), auditory (e.g., voice pitch, shortness of breath when speaking), and olfactory (e.g., smell of exhaled air, body odor) impressions. Clinical practice shows that a great deal of important additional information can be gathered through this first clinical impression, which, together with the history and clinical examination of the emergency patient, provides valuable clues to the underlying condition.

To date, however, only scattered data and study results exist in the medical literature on the value of the first clinical impression in the care of emergency patients. In the present prospective observational study, the study attempts to evaluate the predictive value of the first clinical impression in identifying a leading symptom and other important clinical parameters.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
1506
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patients presenting to the emergency department between 2019-09-01 and 2020-02-28.
Exclusion Criteria
  • None.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Chest painMachine Learning Prediction-
Back painMachine Learning Prediction-
Urological pathologiesMachine Learning Prediction-
Abdominal painMachine Learning Prediction-
Shortness of breathMachine Learning Prediction-
Extremity pathologiesMachine Learning Prediction-
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
AUROC for Classification of Back Pain2019-09-01 to 2020-02-28

AUROC for Classification of Back Pain

AUROC for Classification of Extremity Pathologies2019-09-01 to 2020-02-28

AUROC for Classification of Extremity Pathologies

AUROC for Classification of Abdominal Pain2019-09-01 to 2020-02-28

AUROC for Classification of Abdominal Pain

AUROC for Classification of Shortness of Breath2019-09-01 to 2020-02-28

AUROC for Classification of Shortness of Breath

AUROC for Classification of Urological Pathologies2019-09-01 to 2020-02-28

AUROC for Classification of Urological Pathologies

AUROC for Classification of Chest Pain2019-09-01 to 2020-02-28

AUROC for Classification of Chest Pain

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
AUROC for Classification of Hospital Admission2019-09-01 to 2020-02-28

AUROC for Classification of Hospital Admission

Descriptive Statistics2019-09-01 to 2020-02-28

Descriptive Statistics (e. g. age in years)

Confusion Matrix2019-09-01 to 2020-02-28

Confusion Matrix Results: true positives, true negatives, false positive, false negatives and values calculated from these results.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Kepler University Hospital

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Linz, Upper Austria, Austria

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