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Assessing Accuracy of Clinical Diagnosis and Lesion Location in Acute Neurological Deficits - How Good Are Neurologists?

NCT03009656 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 800

Last updated 2019-07-08

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Summary

The emergency setting for acute neurological conditions, such as stroke, is peculiar due to time pressure and limited resources for further diagnostics. Clinical skills are essential for swift and accurate bedside diagnosis and thus are the basis for early and correct treatment. This is especially evident in the context of computed tomography being the standard neuroimaging method world-wide with its limitations for detecting smaller infarcts, strokes in the posterior fossa and reduced sensitivity for stroke mimics, such as epileptic seizures or migraine aura. To date, the accuracy of clinical bedside diagnosis of stroke by neurologists verified by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the emergency setting has not been studied in detail. In order to improve clinical diagnosing and future treatment it is essential to quantify the accuracy of clinical diagnosis of stroke in the emergency setting ("how good are neurologists?") and to assesses whether there are any differences between experienced staff neurologists and junior physicians.

Conditions

  • Stroke Syndrome
  • Stroke Hemorrhagic
  • Stroke, Acute
  • Strokes Thrombotic
  • Emergencies
  • Diagnostic Self Evaluation

Interventions

OTHER

No study specific interventions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christoph Schankin, PD Dr. med. · Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-01-10
Primary Completion
2020-12-31
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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