An observational study in Complexity and Multiple Illnesses of Adult Hospitalized Internal Medicine Patient, sponsored by Società Italiana di Medicina Interna. Recruiting at 12 sites in Italy. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-03-12.
Sponsored by Società Italiana di Medicina Interna · Observational
The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the association between complexity and multiple illnesses of adult hospitalized internal medicine patient and mortality. The observational study will also evaluate the association between pre-existing factors at hospitalization and clinical outcomes such as mortality, length of hospital stay, intensity of care (transfer to units with higher clinical intensity), complications and rehospitalization.
For data collection, four index weeks will be identified during the year in which the participating Centers will have to sequentially enroll all the participants who will be admitted to the Internal Medicine units, until reaching, for each index week, 10 participants for each of the Participating Centers.
Each enrolled participant will undergo a 12-month follow-up. The study foresees the enrollment of 2326 participants.
This is the only study on the registry with Società Italiana di Medicina Interna as lead sponsor.
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adult hospitalized internal medicine patient
Exclusion Criteria:
to evaluate the correlation between clinical complexity/multimorbidity of the hospitalized internal medicine patient, defined by the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (CIRS), and mortality.
to evaluate the correlation between clinical complexity/multimorbidity of the hospitalized internal medicine patient, defined by the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (CIRS), and mortality. Cumulative Illness Rating Scale: severity index (minimum value is 1, maximum value is 5), comorbidity index (minimum value is 0, maximum value is 13). Higher scores mean worse outcome.
Time frame: 12 months
to evaluate the correlation between pre-existing factors at hospitalization and clinical outcomes - to evaluate the association between disease severity parameters and clinical outcomes
* to evaluate the correlation between pre-existing factors at hospitalization, such as polypharmacy, age, prevalent chronic diseases (e.g. heart failure, respiratory failure and pneumonia, decompensated diabetes, etc.) and clinical outcomes such as mortality, length of hospital stay, intensity of care (transfer to units with higher clinical intensity), complications and rehospitalization * to evaluate the association between disease severity parameters (e.g. biohumoral, score, etc.) and clinical outcomes.
Time frame: 12 months
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