Risk Stratification in Acutely Admitted Medical Patients

Completed

• Conditions: Hematologic Tests

• Registration Number: NCT00768547
• Lead Sponsor: Ribe County Hospital

Brief Summary

The study has three main parts.

1. To see if we can develop a riskstratification tool that can be used to asses the risk for acutely admitted medical patients for inhospital death, admission to the ICU and death within 30 days of release.

2. To test existing tool as in 1.

3. To clarify if it is most reasonable to let the admitting doctor order blood test by clinical judgment or be using a predefined list of tests.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2008-08
• Study Start: 2008-08
• Study First Submitted: 2008-10-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-10-07
• Study First Posted: 2008-10-08
• Primary Completion: 2011-07
• Study Completion: 2011-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2011-07-21
• Last Update Posted: 2011-07-22

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 5900

Inclusion Criteria

• Any patient acutely admitted to the medical department of Ribe County Hospital

Exclusion Criteria

• Age below 15 years
• Unwilling to participate

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of test taken in each group	Five months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ribe County Hospital; 🇩🇰 Esbjerg, Denmark