Prevalence and treatment reality of atrial fibrillation in geriatric patients - a prospective observational study

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Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00025501

Enrollment

1500

Registered

2022-01-26

Start date

2021-05-05

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

I48

Interventions

Group 1: A prospective observational study will be conducted in geriatric patients. All new admissions to a specialist geriatric clinic serve as a patient collective. The data collection is to take pl

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

75 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: inpatient treatment in geriatric specialist clinic Lengenfeld unterm Stein

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: lack of consent

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
newly detected atrial fibrillation in the ECG, long-term ECG	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Collection of relevant comorbidities, risk factors and drug therapy to describe the collective examined. The Barthel index as a measure of a patient's self-care abilities and the mini-mental status test, which offers an orientation to global cognitive disorders, are recorded as geriatric variables.	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactMarkus Götze

St. Elisabeth Krankenhaus

M.Goetze@kh-lengenfeld.de036027750

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026