Biomarkers in Cardiology (BIC)-6Epidemiology: Symptoms and course of disease in the Emergency Room

• Conditions: I50; I48; J44; I10; K29; N30; J06; J15; J16; J17

• Registration Number: DRKS00000261
• Lead Sponsor: Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinArbeitsbereich Notfallmedizin CVK und CCM

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-11-16
• Study Completion: 2010-02-15
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 34434

Inclusion Criteria

All patients admitted to one of the 2 internal Emergency Departments between 15th February 2009 and 15th February 2010.
Patients of full age

Inclusion Criteria for the telephone follow-up at 6 months after admission:
written informed consent signed at admission to the Emergency Department

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion Criteria for the telephone follow-up at 6 months after admission:
Detention by law

Study & Design

• Study Type: observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Final discharge diagnosis related to pre-defined cardinal symptoms. The final discharge diagnosis of each patient will be exported from the hospital information system after the predefined study period has ended. For each patient with one of the predefined cardinal symptoms the discharge diagnosis will be matched and for each symptoms the different diagnoses will be quantified.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The frequency of cardinal symptoms in certain pre-defined diagnoses. Common diagnoses in emergency medicine will be evaluated for their underlying symptoms. All data will be expoted from the hospital information system as in the primary endpoint.