Heterogeneity of Critical Illness: a Cohort Study
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity Medical Center Groningen
About this trial
Rationale: There is large heterogeneity in disease states of critically ill patients at ICU admittance and there is also large heterogeneity in their disease severity during ICU stay. Still, some patients may show remarkable similarities in disease patterns. There is a lack of understanding of causal mechanisms that lead to divergent outcomes in critically ill patients, and at the same time different diseases may share common underlying, yet unidentified, causal pathways that could explain similarities between different diseases.
Objective: To explore the association between patient characteristics and the severity of organ failure in critically ill patients admitted to the ICU Study design: Prospective cohort study Study population: Adult critically ill patients in the ICU Intervention (if applicable): not applicable Main study parameters/endpoints: Maximum severity of organ failure observed during ICU stay measured by the maximum SOFA score and quality of life at one year follow-up
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Adults Definition: age ≥18 years.
Emergency admission to the ICU Definition: patients who are acutely admitted to the ICU due to acute or unexpected critical illness, either from the emergency department or the ward or transferred from an ICU (or a ward) from another hospital.
Disqualifiers
Planned admission
Absence of an invasive arterial or venous line for blood sampling.
Any continued cardiopulmonary resuscitation efforts upon admission which limit access to the patient for research activities.
Main ICU admission reason chronic (non-invasive) home ventilation
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Standard diagnosis test
Treatment groups
5,000 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment groupSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov