Clinical trial NCT03461133: Automated Early Warning Scoring on Surgical Normal Wards
Official title: Detection of Deteriorating Patients on Peripheral Surgical Wards by an Automated Notification System
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Safety Issues
Emergencies
Lead sponsor: University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-03-09
Enrollment: 3827
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: General surgery, vascular surgery, thoracic surgery,

Brief summary: Establishment of early warning systems in hospitals was strongly recommended in recent guidelines to detect deteriorating patients early and direct them to adequate care. Upon meeting of predefined trigger criteria Medical Emergency Teams (MET) should be directed to these patients. The present study analyses the effect of introduction of an automated early warning and trigger system on two peripheral wards hosting a highly complex surgical patient cohort.

Detailed description: The deployment of an electronic monitoring and notification system is accompanied by data acquisition over 12 months (intervention) using four routine databases: Hospital patient data management, anesthesia database, local data of the German Resuscitation Registry, and measurement logs of the automated patient monitoring and alert system (intervention period only). A preceding time period of 12 months served as control.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Admission to one of the participating wards

Exclusion Criteria:

* none

Primary outcomes:
measure: In hospital cardiac arrests
timeFrame: on average 14 days per patient, cumulative over 12 months in each observed cohort
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Dresden
country: Germany
facility: University Hospital Dresden
Study officials:
affiliation: University Hospital Dresden, GERMANY
name: Axel R. Heller, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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citation: Ludikhuize J, Brunsveld-Reinders AH, Dijkgraaf MG, Smorenburg SM, de Rooij SE, Adams R, de Maaijer PF, Fikkers BG, Tangkau P, de Jonge E; Cost and Outcomes of Medical Emergency Teams Study Group. Outcomes Associated With the Nationwide Introduction of Rapid Response Systems in The Netherlands. Crit Care Med. 2015 Dec;43(12):2544-51. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001272.
citation: Muller MP, Richter T, Papkalla N, Poenicke C, Herkner C, Osmers A, Brenner S, Koch T, Schwanebeck U, Heller AR. Effects of a mandatory basic life support training programme on the no-flow fraction during in-hospital cardiac resuscitation: an observational study. Resuscitation. 2014 Jul;85(7):874-8. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.03.046. Epub 2014 Mar 28.
citation: Subbe CP, Duller B, Bellomo R. Effect of an automated notification system for deteriorating ward patients on clinical outcomes. Crit Care. 2017 Mar 14;21(1):52. doi: 10.1186/s13054-017-1635-z.