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Unrecognised Comorbidity Detection in Hospitalised Patients

NCT06881797 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 4500000

Last updated 2026-05-19

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Summary

Over two million people in the UK are unaware that they're living with a long-term (chronic) health condition, such as diabetes or a heart problem. These chronic conditions can lead to serious complications such as heart attacks, strokes, and kidney problems. By diagnosing these conditions earlier, effective treatments can be started sooner which will reduce the risk of harm. However, diagnosis relies on people having symptoms and contacting their doctor or attending NHS Health Checks.

There are over 16 million admissions to English hospitals each year. Hospitals collect a lot of information during a hospital stay including patients' age, blood test results and blood pressure measurements. Research has shown that this information can be helpful in spotting people with chronic conditions.

This study aims to design and test a digital platform to find the patients in hospital who are most likely to have a chronic disease or develop one in the near future.

To do this, the investigators will:

* Use information from earlier research studies and experts to pinpoint which patient information (for example, certain blood tests) would be most useful to spot people with chronic conditions.
* Extract relevant information from historical patient records, looking at who has these risk factors and which patients developed chronic conditions. The investigators will use information from hospital and general practitioner records.
* Build tools to combine this information to predict which people have, or will develop, chronic conditions.
* Implement these tools into a "real-time" digital platform that could be used to find which people should undergo further testing for a chronic condition.
* Test the platform usability with clinical stake holders.

Conditions

  • Diabetes
  • Atrial Fibrillation (AF)
  • Cardiac Disease

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Oxford

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Peter Watkinson · University of Oxford

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-07-01
Primary Completion
2027-11-30
Completion
2027-11-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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