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Appropriate Admission in COPD Exacerbation From Emergency Department. Multicenter Study

NCT02434536 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 2487

Last updated 2016-08-24

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Summary

Objectives: To estimate the rate of appropriate hospital admissions , and of discharge to home episodes that would have been appropriate admissions to the hospital, on patients with exacerbations of their COPD by using appropriateness explicit criteria developed with the RAND appropriateness methodology. To evaluate the validity of those criteria by looking at their correlation with morbid-mortality, use of medications and health resources. To identify the variability in the appropriateness admission/discharge among the different centres participating on the study.

Methodology: Prospective observational cohort study. 1. The investigators will apply the previously developed explicit criteria to a sample of COPD exacerbations presented in each of the Emergency Department of each participating hospital (16 centres). 2. The investigators will evaluate if there is variability among centres by comparing their appropriateness rates. 3. To study the validity of the criteria, on those admitted the investigators will collect information on their evolution (length of stay, need of medication, quality of life), complications, vital status during their admission until discharge, and up to 2 months after the visit to the Emergency Department the vital status, complications, readmissions and quality of life. On those discharged to home from the Emergency Department, the investigators will check the presence of complications, vital status, readmissions and quality of life. People trained will collect all the needed information, in the Emergency Department, during their admission, or by personal interview to all discharged to home and to all at 2 months after the visit to the Emergency Department.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Galdakao-Usansolo

    lead OTHER_GOV

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-10-31
Primary Completion
2010-09-30
Completion
2010-09-30

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