Risk Factors of the Revisit of the Adult Heart Failure Patients in Emergency Department Siriraj Hospital

Congestive Heart Failure Clinical Trial

Official title:

Risk Factors of the Revisit of the Adult Heart Failure Patients in Emergency Department in Siriraj Hospital: The One Year Period.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01373775
• Other study ID #: 740/2551(EC1)
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 9, 2011
• Last updated: June 14, 2011
• Start date: April 2009
• Est. completion date: February 2010

Study information

• Verified date: June 2011
• Source: Mahidol University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Thailand: Ethical Committee
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

To identify the risk factors of the revisit of the adult HF patients in emergency department.

Description:

Because heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of hospitalization and readmission in many hospitals worldwide.

Identifying the risk factors of these HF patients in emergency department is the important reason for the proper management of the HF patients in the future. And can reduce number of hospitalization and readmission in our hospital.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 533
• Est. completion date: February 2010
• Est. primary completion date: September 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients age from 18 years old

• Patients who were diagnosed HF by the Framingham's criteria10

• Patients who were discharged home from emergency department

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients age less than 18 years old

• Patients who not met Framingham's criteria, needed hospital admission, were referred to other hospital, and death

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Congestive Heart Failure
• Emergencies
• Heart Failure
• Renal Insufficiency

Intervention

Other:
• Patient charts reviewing
Reviewing chart and identifying risk factors

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Thailand	Emergency department, Siriraj hospital	Bangkok

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mahidol University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Thailand, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of HF patients who were revisited emergency department before the appointment date.	All HF-peatient charts were reviewed and divided in revisit group and non revisit group.	1 year	Yes
Secondary	Characteristics of the patients in revisit group	The Characteristics of the patients in both groups such as underlying diseases, ejection fraction, and time for treating in emergency department. The results were compared to find the relation between both groups.	1 year	Yes