An Observational Study of Stroke Patients.

An Observational Study of Stroke Patients With Focus on Examinations and Therapeutic Improvement the First 72 Hours.

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03259737

Acronym

SPET-72

Enrollment

120

Registered

2017-08-24

Start date

2018-05-01

Completion date

2022-12-01

Last updated

2021-01-05

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Conditions

Cerebrovascular Disorders, Hyperglycemia, Hypertension, Quality of Care, Troponin

Brief summary

The intention is to study presumed changes in daily practice, probably due to New Guidelines concerning stroke patients. The impression is more frequent measurements of blood pressure, serum glucose, troponin and supplementary computer tomography or magnetic resonance imaging.

Detailed description

There is in general a focus on misuse of health resources. An increasing amount of guidelines is produced to reduce the variation in treatment of patients with the same diagnosis. Many recommendations are weak but seems though to have considerable impact on in hospital care. The issues to be studied are all grounded on weak clinical evidence. A pilot study confirmed the suspicion of very frequent measurements of blood pressure, glucose, troponin and frequent supplementary CT and MRI. The intention is to study these issues in a larger population including an evaluation of utility of the different examinations and evaluations.

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

* Patients with a diagnosis of stroke according to ICD 10th revision (code I61 I63 and I64) * Hospitalized between January 1 and December 31, 2015

Exclusion criteria

* Previous hospitalization with a diagnosis of stroke in 2015. * Foreigners and patients from other regions of Norway.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Number of supplementary computer tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain.	3 months	Number
The number of blood sugar measurements	72 hours after admission to hospital	Number

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Troponin measurement,	72 hours	frequency and level of max value
Number of blood pressure measurement	72 hours	Number
Transfer to tertiary center	72 hours	Number

Countries

Norway

Outcome results