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CompletedNCT06361862WARD-OTUpdated Apr 6, 2025

Does Continuous Vital Sign Monitoring Increase Investigations and Interventions in Complication-free Patients?

An interventional study of Active alarms from WARD software in Cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Surgery-Complications, sponsored by Rigshospitalet, Denmark. Completed at 1 site in Denmark. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-04-06.

Sponsored by Rigshospitalet, Denmark · Not applicable, Interventional, and Diagnostic

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
700
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This aim of this study is to investigate whether active alerts during CVSM result in an increased number of diagnostic tests and treatments in complication free patients, hypothesizing that more interventions are performed in the CVSM-group than standard of care (EWS) group.

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Conditions studied

  • Cancer
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  • Surgery-Complications
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In context

Lung Diseases, Obstructive

2,592 studies on the registry are indexed under Lung Diseases, Obstructive; 198 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 700 is above the median of 66 across 1,837 interventional studies indexed under Lung Diseases, Obstructive.

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Lead sponsor

Rigshospitalet, Denmark is the lead sponsor of 1,017 studies on the registry; 183 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

    • Patients from WARD - RCT.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

-

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Diagnostic
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Investigator)
Enrollment
700 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • No intervention
    inactive alarms

    Patients with continuous monitoring without active alerts from WARD.

  • Experimental
    active alarms

    Patients with continuous monitoring with active alerts from WARD.

    Device: Active alarms from WARD software

Interventions

  • DeviceActive alarms from WARD software

    Wireless continuous vital sign monitoring with real time staff alerts

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Frequency of patients having at least one of the following tests/treatments:

    * CT-scans * MRi-Scans * PET-Scans * X-ray (ordered by attending doctor, besides standard procedural investigations) * ultrasounds * Antibiotics (ordered by attending doctor, besides standard procedural treatment) * Arterial puncture * Gastro- colonoscopy * Dialysis * Central venous line (incl. dialysis catheter)

    Time frame: 72 hours

Secondary outcomes

  1. The frequency of individual treatments and diagnostics:

    Treatments: * Antibiotics (ordered by attending doctor, besides standard procedural treatment) * CPAP * blood-transfusion * IV-fluids * Dialysis * Naso-gastric tube (ordered by attending doctor, besides standard procedural treatment) * Central venous line (incl. dialysis catheter) Diagnostics: * Imaging CT, X-ray, MRI, PET, and ultrasound. * Blood tests: arterial blood gases, cultures, and other blood sample tests. * ECG * cultures from urine, sputum, swabs, and feces.

    Time frame: 72 hours

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Study locations

1 site
  • Eske Kvanner Aasvang
    Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 6, 2025, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06361862
Lead sponsor
Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Collaborators
Bispebjerg Hospital
Responsible party
Eske Kvanner Aasvang (Professor, head of research, MD, DmSci, Rigshospitalet, Denmark) — Principal investigator
First posted
Apr 12, 2024
Start date
Jan 1, 2024
Primary completion
Apr 2, 2025
Completion
Apr 2, 2025
Last update
Apr 6, 2025

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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