Transfer to Another Health Care Facility Following Critical Illness

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00484445

Enrollment

548

Registered

2007-06-11

Start date

2003-01-31

Completion date

2003-01-31

Last updated

2013-09-05

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Conditions

Transfer to a Health Care Facility After Critical Illness

Keywords

Chronic critical illness, Functional status, Outcomes, Post-ICU

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to identify acute and chronic medical conditions that are identifiable early in the course of critical illness that are associated with transfer to another health care facility (versus to home) upon hospital discharge.

Detailed description

Many patients who survive critical illness are unable to return home upon hospital discharge and require prolonged or permanent care in other health care facilities. It would be useful to clinicians, researchers, patients, and patients' families to be able to identify early in the course of critical illness those patients who are at increased risk for this outcome. Currently, few data exist regarding the risk factors for this outcome. This study examines a cohort of survivors of critical illness to identify factors associated with transfer to another health care facility upon hospital discharge.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Admission to the University of Chicago Medical Intensive Care Unit during the following periods: July 1997 to February 1998, November/December 2001, and March/April 2002.

Exclusion criteria

* Death during the index hospitalization. * Residence in another health care facility 2 weeks prior to admission.

Countries

United States

Outcome results