Resuscitation Decisions in the Emergency Department (ED) (REDEED)

University Hospital Basel

Status: Completed

Conditions: Resuscitation

Treatments: Other: Factors influencing resuscitation decisions of patients; Other: Factors leading to not asking patients about resuscitation preference

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02575573

REDEED

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will retrospectively examine the connection between resuscitation decisions of admitted patients at the ED of the University Hospital of Basel and several demographic and health related measures. Additionally there will be an examination, which patient characterestics may have lead to patients not having been asked about resuscitation decisions.

Enrollment: 10,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients admitted to the emergency department (duration of hospitalisation more than 24 h).
• Patients with a research consent "yes".

Exclusion criteria

• Patients being discharged within less than 24 hours.
• Patients with a research consent "no".

Trial design

10,000 participants in 1 patient group

Admitted patients at the ED

Treatment:

Other: Factors influencing resuscitation decisions of patients

Other: Factors leading to not asking patients about resuscitation preference