The Role of NEWS on Intensive Care Discharges

Hitit University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intensive Care

Treatments: Other: discharge; Other: readmission

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03626961

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Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine the ability of the NEWS at tertiary intensive care unit discharges to predict the development of clinical deterioration.

To determine a cut-off value for NEWS score for early readmission

Full description

The Nationaly Early Warning Score (NEWS) is a single score based on the measurement of vital signs and inspired gases by the patient. A higher NEWS indicates severity of illness and risk of adverse outcomes. The use of NEWS values to select the appropriate patients for tertiary ICU discharges has not been tested. Our aim is to test the value of NEWS on discharges tertiary ICU.

Enrollment: 538 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Older than 18 years old
• Stay higher than 48 hours

Exclusion criteria

• Under 18 years old
• Stay lower than 48 hours
• Intoxication
• Exitus

Trial design

538 participants in 2 patient groups

discharge

Description:

patients discharged from icu

Treatment:

Other: readmission

Other: discharge

readmission

Description:

patients readmitted icu in 48 hours after icu discharge

Treatment:

Other: readmission

Other: discharge