NCT00560248

The BEACON Registry: Best Expert Agreement for Care of Occult Myocardial Infarction (MI) Nationally

The BEACON Registry: Best Expert Agreement for Care of Occult MI Nationally

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,897 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Cleveland Clinic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this registry is to assess and improve the process of care and health outcomes of patients presenting to the Emergency Department with chest pain suspected to be of cardiac origin. The study will identify which methods facilitate the diagnosis and risk stratification of ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) or non STEMI, including patients with occult myocardial infarction (MI), and result in a shorter time to definitive diagnosis and treatment.

Detailed description

The BEACON Registry is a multi-center data collection and follow-up registry. Participating Sites will collect information on patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) with chest pain. The purpose of the BEACON Registry is to evaluate the impact of new technologies, practice patterns and initiatives on patient time to diagnosis, patient time to treatment, patient survival and overall economics.

Conditions

• Chest Pain

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-11-01
• Primary completion: 2009-09-01
• Completion: 2009-09-01
• First posted: 2007-11-19
• Last updated: 2010-02-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States