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NCT Number: NCT04328519

The Charlson Comorbidity Index: Predicting Severity in Emergency Departments

Objective: The Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) is a comorbidity scale used widely throughout the world. It uses patients' preoperative and intraoperative morbidity factors to evaluate morbidity and mortality risk. Though the CCI has widespread use, it has not been evaluated in patients attending at ES, and its relationship with patient readmission has not been shown previously. In this study, we aimed to show whether there is a correlation between the CCI value and the number of repeated admissions to emergency services and that the CCI value can be used as a predicted factor for the serious patients.

Matherials and Methods: This was a prospective observational cross-sectional study. Age, gender, vital signs of the patients who agreed to participate in the study was recorded. Numbers of emergency service applications in the last 6 months and CCI score have been recorded.

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Key information

Conditions

Emergency Medicine

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Abdullah Osman Kocak

Erzurum, 25100, Turkey (Türkiye)

About this study

This study showed that CCI score can be used for identify serious patient in emergency service.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Admitted patients were told about the study, and those who agreed to participate were included

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients who did not wish to participate in the study
  • Patients who were unable to work or who had problems with consciousness
  • Patients with non-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest
  • Patients who had previously participated in the study (readmitted patients)
  • Patients who had accessed ES for the same or a similar complaint within the last seven days
  • < 18 years' old

Treatment and study plan

observation

Other

observation

Primary outcomes

  1. determine the severity of patients. to identify patients who need hospitalization. determine the severity of patients.

    Time frame: 2018

    to identify patients who need hospitalization.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Ataturk University

Other

Registry information

Acronym: Charlson

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2018
Study completion
2019
First posted
Mar 31, 2020
Registry last updated
Mar 31, 2020

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