Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Patients With Community Acquired Pneumonia

Completed

• Conditions: Pneumonia; Dysphagia
• Interventions: Other: Dysphagia

• Registration Number: NCT01974089
• Lead Sponsor: Vendsyssel Hospital

Brief Summary

This study investigates relationship between community acquired pneumonia and oropharyngeal dysphagia in patients admitted to a department of respiratory medicine in Northern Denmark.

The endpoints will be re-hospitalisation and mortality.

Detailed Description

Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in elderly patients. Risk factors are many including oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD). Systematic screening of OD is recommended for at-risk popolations, however these resommandations do not specifically address elderly patients hospitalized with CAP.

In this study OD is assessed in all patients by Volume-Viscosity Swallowing Test (V-VST) The study is registered by the Danish Data Protection Authority (2008-58-0028)

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-10
• Primary Completion: 2013-10
• Study First Submitted: 2013-10-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-10-31
• Study First Posted: 2013-11-01
• Study Completion: 2014-03
• Results First Submitted: 2018-02-02
• Results First Submitted QC: 2018-02-02
• Results First Posted: 2018-10-01
• Status Verified: 2019-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-04-10
• Last Update Posted: 2019-04-24

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 154

Inclusion Criteria

• Temperature > 38 degrees Celcius
• New infiltrate on chest x-ray
• Increased C-reactive protein (CRP)
• Either cough, dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, expectoration, or tachypnea

Exclusion Criteria

• patients referred from the intensive care unit
• reduced cognitive awareness if not able to able to cooperate with the assessment of oropharyngeal dysphagia

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Pneumonia and dysphagia	Dysphagia	Patients with community aquired pneumonia and oropharyngea dysphagia

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Intra Hospital Mortality	With in 10 days from admission	Intra hospital mortality is death while the patient is hospitalized
30 Day Mortality	30 days after discharge	Death within 30 days of discharge
Re-hospitalization	30 days after discharge	The rate of re-hospitalization within 30 days of discharge

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Vendsyssel Hospital; 🇩🇰 Hjørring, Denmark