Does COVID-19 Pandemic Reduce In-hospital Mortality?

NCT ID: NCT04480515

Last Updated: 2020-07-21

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 5000 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-03-11
• Study Completion Date: 2020-06-30

Brief Summary

COVID-19, which emerged in China in December 2019, has become a pandemic with its spread to many countries of the world. Although it is suggested that hospital admissions are reduced due to some reasons such as trauma, during COVID-19 pandemic, it is controversial whether in-hospital mortality rates changed. Therefore this multi-centered study aimed to determine how in-hospital mortality effected during the pandemic period according to the specific patient groups.

Detailed Description

COVID-19, which emerged in China in December 2019, has become a pandemic with its spread to many countries of the world. Although it is suggested that hospital admissions are reduced due to some reasons such as trauma, during COVID-19 pandemic, it is controversial whether in-hospital mortality rates changed. Therefore this multi-centered study aimed to determine how in-hospital mortality effected during the pandemic period according to the specific patient groups. Thus, in case of a pandemic, it will be a guide in which patient groups healthcare providers should be more careful about.

Conditions

Covid19; In-hospital Cardiac Arrest

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: OTHER

Interventions

in-hospital mortality rate

In-hospital mortality rate during pandemic of 2020 will be compared with the in-hospital mortality rate of the last year's same time period

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Deaths, with all required data available, occurred within the study hospitals
• centers Accepted to participate with an informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

• lack of consent
• lack of data
• deaths occurred outside the study hospitals

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Training and Research Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Ramazan Guven

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Training and Research Hospital

Istanbul, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

KSSEAH--IHM

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id