NCT01027026

The Acute Coronary Syndrome Study

The Acute Coronary Syndrome Study. Organization and Treatment of Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome, With a Focus on Costs, Organization and Security

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 400 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ullevaal University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators will make a prospective study in which they will look at the economics and security of the treatment of patients with acute coronary syndrome. The investigators want to do a randomized trial. One group will be treated as they have been treated at Ullevål University Hospital (UUS) in recent years, and the other group will be returned to their refering hospital the same day. The objective of this study will be to provide increased knowledge about whether the rapid discharge from the intervention center is associated with differences in costs or security.

Detailed description

The topic of this study is whether patients with Acute coronary syndrome (ACS)may can be transferred to their refering hospital same day that they arrived intervention hospital. This is to see if one can reduce the hospital stay and costs for the intervention center, and the total hospitalization time. and this rapid transport not give more medical complications Our 1 hypothesis is that patients with ACS, who are transported back to the refering hospital the same day, will reduce the length of stay in intervention center without an increase for the stay at the refering hospital. Our 2 hypothesis is that patients with ACS, who are transported back to the refering hospital the same day as the treatment is performed, have no more complications than those who stay overnight in the intervention hospital.

Conditions

• Acute Coronary Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Early discharge	The patients are discharged the same day as coronary angiography.
OTHER	Care as usual. No intervention. (Control group)	The patients are admitted and cared as usual in cardiology ward.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-02-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2013-05-01
• First posted: 2009-12-07
• Last updated: 2009-12-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway