The National Early Warning Score: Preceding Dynamics in the Score for Those Who Suffer an In-hospital Cardiac Arrest

NCT ID: NCT03143062

Last Updated: 2018-09-05

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

381 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-09-30

Study Completion Date

2018-09-02

Brief Summary

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To this date no clinical evaluation reports of the dynamics in the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) for those patients who suffer an in-hospital cardiac arrest, IHCA, exists. This process needs to be investigated in order to optimize the future care of these patients.

Research Questions H1: Patients that suffer an IHCA has had higher NEWS in the preceding 24 hours from the event compared to those who did not suffer an IHCA.

H2: The dynamics in the NEWS, differs between the patients that suffer an IHCA and those who do not in the preceding 24 hours from the event.

Detailed Description

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Power:

A sample size of 300 patients in the control group and 150 patients in the group that suffered from an IHCA would generate a power estimate of 80 percent if the difference in the median is one point on the NEWS with a standard deviate of three points.

Analysis of the Research Data:

Categorical and nonparametric data will be presented in median (25-75 percentiles).

A hypothesis testing will be performed where the documented NEWS will be categorized into low-, medium- and high-risk and divided into different timespans. The timespans will be 0-6 h, 6-12 h, 12-18 and 18-24 h preceding the IHCA. In case of multiple NEWS measurements within each timespan, the worst NEWS measurement will be chosen. Each timespan during the 24 hours will not be treated as repeated measures and will be tested by the Chi square test. This test is chosen because the data is categorical. Another hypothesis test where all the NEWS measurements will be included and each documented NEWS on the same patient will be treated as repeated measures. A binary logistic regression analysis will be performed using Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) and modelled to fit.

In order to select the covariates that is to be included in the regression analysis a non-parametric test including all the parameters in the NEWS will be executed. The level of significance for this test will be set to p=0.2 2. Collinearity within the NEWS parameters that is to be included in the regression analysis will be tested. The level of collinearity that is accepted will be \<+0,6 and \>-0,6. A binomial logistic regression analysis will be executed with the selected parameters in the NEWS The outcome of the regression analysis will be presented as odds ratio (OR).

Conditions

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Rapid Response System Vital Signs

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_CONTROL

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Cases

150 patients that suffered an in-hospital cardiac arrest in a hospital ward.

NEWS

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

NEWS

Controls

300 patients that did not suffer an in-hospital cardiac arrest but was treated in a hospital ward.

NEWS

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

NEWS

Interventions

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NEWS

NEWS

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

All patients ≥18 years of age admitted to the hospitals during a period of 12 months will be reviewed for eligibility

Exclusion Criteria

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Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Region Skane

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Karin Samuelson, Ass Professor

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Region Skåne

Locations

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Region Skåne

Kristianstad, , Sweden

Site Status

Countries

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Sweden

Other Identifiers

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RegionSkaneKrYHVOAnIVAMS2

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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