Hospital Stay and Respiratory Infection

University of Granada (UGR)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Respiratory Infection

Treatments: Other: Respiratory infection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02047383

DF0047UG

Details and patient eligibility

About

The acute respiratory infection is the fourth most common cause of hospital stay between elderly people. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the repercussion of hospital stay in hospitalized patients with a respiratory infection.

Full description

Acute respiratory infection is a serious infection that prevents normal breathing function. It refers to any of a number of infectious diseases involving the respiratory tract. Health conditions that increase the risk of a respiratory infection include: another lung condition, a heart condition, a kidney or liver condition and a lowered immune system. The hospital stay of this patients is approximately 7-10 days and it is important to study the effects of this stay in the physical and psycho-emotional characteristics of patients.

Enrollment: 116 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of respiratory infection
• Age: more than 50 year.
• Signed written consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Heart disease and concomitant neurological condition.

Trial design

116 participants in 1 patient group

respiratory infection

Description:

Hospitalized patients with a respiratory infection

Treatment:

Other: Respiratory infection