Multicenter Study of Generation Comorbidity Score

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Status: Completed

Conditions: Death

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01346111

1385

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to generate and valid a co-morbidity score with updated definitions and suitable for use in Argentina in both public and private settings. These tools would allow us to compare different populations in Argentina adjusting for comorbidities. Also, this would potentially help attending physicians and health administrators.

Full description

The investigators will generate a co-morbidity score, perform the score validation and generate an online calculator for the score (open access).

Finally, a score validation for extreme values of score will be performed to ensure representativeness of these patients.

Enrollment: 2,640 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 17+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult 17 older
• admitted to hospital within 72 hours of admission
• non programed admission

Exclusion criteria

• negative to participate
• 72 hs mortality expected
• obstetrics admissions

Trial design

2,640 participants in 1 patient group

generation cohort

Description:

Included 5 hospitals from Buenos Aires, Argentina