Paediatric Rural vs Urban Trauma

Paediatric Trauma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Comparing Paediatric Trauma Presentations in a Rural District General Hospital and an Urban Major Trauma Centre: a Retrospective Cohort Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04760886
• Other study ID #: Paediatric trauma study
• Status: Completed
• Start date: April 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: April 1, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: February 2021
• Source: NHS Highland
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Retrospective cohort study examining paediatric trauma admission over 1 year in a rural hospital vs urban centre

Description:

As above. All patient data was anonymised.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: April 1, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: April 1, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A to 16 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All paediatric trauma in each centre over the above time frame, treated operatively, seen on an acute orthopaedic take

Exclusion Criteria:

• Adults, non-operative trauma

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Paediatric Trauma
• Wounds and Injuries

Intervention

Other:
• Type of hospital (rural DGH vs Urban MTC)
In this small cohort study, the hospital in which the patients were treated was the intervention. One was in a rural area and was a district general, whereas one was in an urban enviroment and was a major trauma centre.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	Jennifer Dunn, Raigmore hospital orthopaedic department	Inverness	Scotland

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mrs Jennifer M Dunn

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Type of operation performed	Type of orthopaedic intervention documented	1st April 2019- 1st April 2020
Primary	Distribution of type of paediatric trauma	Sub-types of fractures seen documented	1st April 2019- 1st April2020
Secondary	Seasonality of trauma	winter vs summer months trauma numbers documented	1st April 2019- 1st April 2020