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Impact of Gender on Hospitalized Patients

NCT00843557 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 2400

Last updated 2016-10-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to better understand the relationship between gender (being a man or a woman), infections caught in the hospital, and serious illness. Five hundred seventy patients 18 years of age or older who are critically (seriously) ill and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for at least 48 hours will participate in this study. Patients will be studied while receiving regular ICU treatment according to local standards. Blood specimens will come from patients either as wasted blood (University of Virginia) or blood collected from patients specifically for the study (Vanderbilt University). All patients will be followed daily until death or discharge from the ICU. The researchers believe that they will find a similar risk of infection for men and women overall.

Conditions

  • Critical Illness

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Vanderbilt University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Virginia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Robert G Sawyer, MD · University of Virginia

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2001-09-30
Primary Completion
2006-05-31
Completion
2008-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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