Transfer to Another Health Care Facility Following Critical Illness

Transfer to a Health Care Facility After Critical Illness Clinical Trial

Official title:

Transfer to Another Health Care Facility Following Critical Illness

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00484445
• Other study ID #: 12093B
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 8, 2007
• Last updated: September 4, 2013
• Start date: January 2003
• Est. completion date: January 2003

Study information

• Verified date: September 2013
• Source: University of Chicago
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to identify acute and chronic medical conditions that are identifiable early in the course of critical illness that are associated with transfer to another health care facility (versus to home) upon hospital discharge.

Description:

Many patients who survive critical illness are unable to return home upon hospital discharge and require prolonged or permanent care in other health care facilities. It would be useful to clinicians, researchers, patients, and patients' families to be able to identify early in the course of critical illness those patients who are at increased risk for this outcome. Currently, few data exist regarding the risk factors for this outcome. This study examines a cohort of survivors of critical illness to identify factors associated with transfer to another health care facility upon hospital discharge.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 548
• Est. completion date: January 2003
• Est. primary completion date: January 2003
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Admission to the University of Chicago Medical Intensive Care Unit during the following periods: July 1997 to February 1998, November/December 2001, and March/April 2002.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Death during the index hospitalization.

• Residence in another health care facility 2 weeks prior to admission.

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Critical Illness
• Transfer to a Health Care Facility After Critical Illness

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Chicago Hospitals	Chicago	Illinois

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Chicago	American College of Chest Physicians, Association of Subspecialty Professors, The John A. Hartford Foundation

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States,