NCT02575573

Resuscitation Decisions in the Emergency Department (ED)

Influencing Factors on Resuscitation Decisions in the ED

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 10,000 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators will retrospectively examine the connection between resuscitation decisions of admitted patients at the ED of the University Hospital of Basel and several demographic and health related measures. Additionally there will be an examination, which patient characterestics may have lead to patients not having been asked about resuscitation decisions.

Conditions

• Resuscitation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Factors influencing resuscitation decisions of patients
OTHER	Factors leading to not asking patients about resuscitation preference

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2016-12-01
• First posted: 2015-10-14
• Last updated: 2018-01-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland