An observational study in Safety Issues and Emergencies, sponsored by University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus. Completed at 1 site in Germany. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-03-09.
Sponsored by University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus · Observational
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.
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.
University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus is the lead sponsor of 9 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.
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General surgery, vascular surgery, thoracic surgery,
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Exclusion Criteria:
All patients admitted to the participating surgical wards from 2015-01-01 to 2015-12-31
All patients admitted to the participating surgical wards from 2016-07-01 to 2017-06-30
Other: Intervention
The emergency notification system is linked to a paging system to the surgeon in charge and to the Hospital Medical Emergency Team. Depending on individual Multiparameter Early Warning Score communication protocols are activated.
Also known as: Automated early warning score and notification system
In hospital cardiac arrests
Patient cardiac arrests during stay
Time frame: on average 14 days per patient, cumulative over 12 months in each observed cohort
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Plan to share: No — No individual participant data will be shared
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