NCT02047383

Hospital Stay and Respiratory Infection

Repercussion of Hospital Stay in Patients With Respiratory Infection

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 116 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Granada · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The acute respiratory infection is the fourth most common cause of hospital stay between elderly people. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the repercussion of hospital stay in hospitalized patients with a respiratory infection.

Detailed description

Acute respiratory infection is a serious infection that prevents normal breathing function. It refers to any of a number of infectious diseases involving the respiratory tract. Health conditions that increase the risk of a respiratory infection include: another lung condition, a heart condition, a kidney or liver condition and a lowered immune system. The hospital stay of this patients is approximately 7-10 days and it is important to study the effects of this stay in the physical and psycho-emotional characteristics of patients.

Conditions

• Respiratory Infection

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Respiratory infection	An assessment of the patients included in the study will be conducted

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-05-01
• Completion: 2014-08-01
• First posted: 2014-01-28
• Last updated: 2016-11-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain