Acute Abdomen in Adults- a Prospective Study on Emergency Department Admissions
- Conditions
- Abdominal Pain
- Registration Number
- NCT03074084
- Lead Sponsor
- Tampere University Hospital
- Brief Summary
This is a non-randomized, prospective, population-based, single-center study designed to evaluate conditions resulting emergency admission in patients with abdominal pain. Furthermore, we are interested in how many patients are discharged with "non-specific abdominal pain" but later readmitted and diagnosed with a specific diagnosis.
- Detailed Description
1000 adult patients with acute abdominal pain will be recruited at Tampere University Hospital Emergency department. The patients will fill in a questionaire about the symptoms and their duration. A urine sample will be collected for polyamine molecule analysis with an electronic nose. At later stage of the study, a serum sample for coeliac tests will be collected. Patient outcome will be obtained during the hospital stay, at one-month after discharge and at one year.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1000
All adult patients with abdominal pain.
Under the age of 18 years
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Number of patients with specific diagnose One month Population based analysis of incidence of diseases
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Number of patients misdiagnosed in emergency department and requiring readmission One month Number of participants with treatment related adverse events One month Diagnostic accuracy of polyamine molecule analysis One month Number of patients with undiagnosed coeliac disease One month
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Tampere University Hospital
🇫🇮Tampere, Finland