The Role of NEWS on Intensive Care Discharges

Completed

• Conditions: Intensive Care
• Interventions: Other: readmission; Other: discharge

• Registration Number: NCT03626961
• Lead Sponsor: Hitit University

Brief Summary

To determine the ability of the NEWS at tertiary intensive care unit discharges to predict the development of clinical deterioration.

To determine a cut-off value for NEWS score for early readmission

Detailed Description

The Nationaly Early Warning Score (NEWS) is a single score based on the measurement of vital signs and inspired gases by the patient. A higher NEWS indicates severity of illness and risk of adverse outcomes. The use of NEWS values to select the appropriate patients for tertiary ICU discharges has not been tested. Our aim is to test the value of NEWS on discharges tertiary ICU.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-12-01
• Study First Submitted: 2018-08-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-08-08
• Study First Posted: 2018-08-13
• Primary Completion: 2019-01-01
• Study Completion: 2019-06-30
• Status Verified: 2019-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-08-05
• Last Update Posted: 2019-08-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 538

Inclusion Criteria

• Older than 18 years old
• Stay higher than 48 hours

Exclusion Criteria

• Under 18 years old
• Stay lower than 48 hours
• Intoxication
• Exitus

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
readmission	discharge	patients readmitted icu in 48 hours after icu discharge
discharge	readmission	patients discharged from icu
readmission	readmission	patients readmitted icu in 48 hours after icu discharge
discharge	discharge	patients discharged from icu

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Readmission rate	48 hours	Clinical deterioration within 48 hours after ICU transfer

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hitit university; 🇹🇷 Çorum, Corum, Turkey