Resuscitation Decisions in the Emergency Department (ED)

Resuscitation Clinical Trial

— REDEED  

Official title:

Influencing Factors on Resuscitation Decisions in the ED

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02575573
• Other study ID #: REDEED
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 6, 2015
• Last updated: January 2, 2018
• Start date: October 2015
• Est. completion date: December 2016

Study information

• Verified date: January 2018
• Source: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The investigators will retrospectively examine the connection between resuscitation decisions of admitted patients at the ED of the University Hospital of Basel and several demographic and health related measures. Additionally there will be an examination, which patient characterestics may have lead to patients not having been asked about resuscitation decisions.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 10000
• Est. completion date: December 2016
• Est. primary completion date: December 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients admitted to the emergency department (duration of hospitalisation more than 24 h).

• Patients with a research consent "yes".

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients being discharged within less than 24 hours.

• Patients with a research consent "no".

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Resuscitation

Intervention

Other:
• Factors influencing resuscitation decisions of patients

• Factors leading to not asking patients about resuscitation preference

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Switzerland	University Hospital Basel, Emergency Department	Basel	Baselstadt

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland	Max Planck Institute for Human Development, University of Basel

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Switzerland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Resuscitation decision of the patient	Answer to the question "Do you want life prolonging treatment if necessary?"	During stay at ED (range: <1 hour until 31 days)
Secondary	Patient characterestics, which may have lead to patients not having been asked about resuscitation decisions	Age, gender, resuscitation decision, ICD codes	During stay at ED (range: <1 hour until 31 days)