Clinical trial NCT02643459: Risk Stratification in Acute Care: The Meaning of suPAR Measurement in Triage
Official title: Introduction of Soluble Urokinase Plasminogen Activating Receptor in Acute Care as a Prognostic Biomarker to Strengthen Risk Stratification of Acutely Admitted Patients
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Triage
Risk Stratification With Biomarker
Keywords: Triage
Risk stratification
Acute care
suPAR
Lead sponsor: Herlev Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2015-12-31
Enrollment: 20000
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 16
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Will clinical outcome for patients be improved if triage in Acute wards and Emergency rooms is supplemented with a prognostic biomarker?

Detailed description: In a health care system where the general population is growing, more patients are living with chronic conditions and the hospitals are reducing beds and length of stay, it is crucial to perform safe and fast risk stratification of patients presenting in the Emergency departments. Risk stratification is currently performed with a combination of measurement of the vital signs and assessment of the primary complaint. The aim of the current study is to assess whether the supplement of biomarkers can improve the risk stratification in regard to mortality, readmissions and improve overall patient flow in the Emergency departments. Soluble urokinase plasminogen activating receptor (suPAR) is the soluble form of urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR). uPAR is present on various immunological active cells, as well as endothelia and smooth muscle cells. It is believed that suPAR mirrors the inflammatory response in patients. Previous studies have shown a strong association with mortality and severity of disease in a broad variety of conditions (infection, hepatic-, renal-, cardiac- and lung disease) as well as a possible marker of disease development in the general population. These abilities indicate that suPAR although unspecific would be ideal to identify patients at high- and at low-risk. The aim is to target interventions and limited clinical focus where it is most beneficial. In unselected patients suPAR is one of the strongest prognostic biomarker available to date.

It is not known whether information on prognosis in the Emergency department can be used to prevent death, serious complications or reduce admissions and readmissions.

The purpose of the current study is to examine if introduction of the biomarker suPAR and education of doctors in the meaning of suPAR levels and association to disease, can reduce mortality, admissions and readmission in patients referred to the emergency rooms.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients presenting acutely to the Acute ward/Emergency department and have blood samples done which include both Hemoglobin, C reactive protein and Creatinine within 6 hours of registration within the study period. The study is carried out in 2 Hospitals in the Capital of Denmark.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients presenting in Pediatric, Gynecological or Obstetric units. Patients not being examined with blood samples.

Primary outcomes:
measure: All Cause Mortality
timeFrame: 10 months after the inclusions period ends mortality data will be assessed
Secondary outcomes:
measure: All Cause Mortality
timeFrame: 1 months after index admission mortality data will assessed
measure: Number of Discharges From the Emergency Room Within 24 Hours
timeFrame: 24 hours
measure: Number of Admissions to the Medical Ward
timeFrame: 30 days
measure: Number of Patients With an Admission to the Intensive Care Unit
timeFrame: 30 days
measure: Number of Patients With New Cancer Diagnosis in Control vs Intervention Groups
timeFrame: 10 months after inclusion period ends
measure: Length of Stay During Admission.
timeFrame: 30 days
measure: Number of Readmissions
timeFrame: 90 days
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Herlev
country: Denmark
facility: Herlev Hospital, Department of Cardiology
Study officials:
affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Herlev Hospital
name: Kasper K Iversen, MD, DMSci
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: Schultz M, Rasmussen LJH, Hoi-Hansen T, Kjoller E, Jensen BN, Lind MN, Ravn L, Kallemose T, Lange T, Kober L, Rasmussen LS, Eugen-Olsen J, Iversen KK. Early Discharge from the Emergency Department Based on Soluble Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor (suPAR) Levels: A TRIAGE III Substudy. Dis Markers. 2019 May 19;2019:3403549. doi: 10.1155/2019/3403549. eCollection 2019.
citation: Schultz M, Rasmussen LJH, Kallemose T, Kjoller E, Lind MN, Ravn L, Lange T, Kober L, Rasmussen LS, Eugen-Olsen J, Iversen K. Availability of suPAR in emergency departments may improve risk stratification: a secondary analysis of the TRIAGE III trial. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2019 Apr 11;27(1):43. doi: 10.1186/s13049-019-0621-7.
citation: Schultz M, Rasmussen LJH, Andersen MH, Stefansson JS, Falkentoft AC, Alstrup M, Sando A, Holle SLK, Meyer J, Tornkvist PBS, Hoi-Hansen T, Kjoller E, Jensen BN, Lind M, Ravn L, Kallemose T, Lange T, Kober L, Rasmussen LS, Eugen-Olsen J, Iversen KK. Use of the prognostic biomarker suPAR in the emergency department improves risk stratification but has no effect on mortality: a cluster-randomized clinical trial (TRIAGE III). Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2018 Aug 28;26(1):69. doi: 10.1186/s13049-018-0539-5.
citation: Sando A, Schultz M, Eugen-Olsen J, Rasmussen LS, Kober L, Kjoller E, Jensen BN, Ravn L, Lange T, Iversen K. Introduction of a prognostic biomarker to strengthen risk stratification of acutely admitted patients: rationale and design of the TRIAGE III cluster randomized interventional trial. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2016 Aug 5;24:100. doi: 10.1186/s13049-016-0290-8.