Risk Stratification in Acutely Admitted Medical Patients

Ribe County Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hematologic Tests

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00768547

risk stratification

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study has three main parts.

1. To see if we can develop a riskstratification tool that can be used to asses the risk for acutely admitted medical patients for inhospital death, admission to the ICU and death within 30 days of release.
2. To test existing tool as in 1.
3. To clarify if it is most reasonable to let the admitting doctor order blood test by clinical judgment or be using a predefined list of tests.

Enrollment: 5,900 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any patient acutely admitted to the medical department of Ribe County Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Age below 15 years
• Unwilling to participate

Trial design

5,900 participants in 2 patient groups

By protocol

Description:

Where the test are predefined

By degression

Description:

The group where the doctor decided which test are to be taken.