NCT02932982

Diagnostic Reasoning and Sense of Alarm at Dyspnoea and / or Chest Pain

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 241 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Brest · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Dyspnea and chest pain represent 1.5% of general practice consultations. They may be a sign of many diseases, potentially serious. The concept of Gut Feelings brings a sense of alarm and reinsurance. The sense of alarm reflects a sense of mistrust about the patient's clinical situation, in the absence of objective argument. The sense of reinsurance reflects a sense of confidence about the patient's situation, in the absence of objective argument. Gut Feelings plays a key role in the diagnostic reasoning in general practice. A questionnaire measuring the Gut Feelings was validated in French after a linguistic validation procedure.

Detailed description

Dyspnea and chest pain represent 1.5% of general practice consultations. They may be a sign of many diseases, potentially serious. The concept of Gut Feelings brings a sense of alarm and reinsurance. The sense of alarm reflects a sense of mistrust about the patient's clinical situation, in the absence of objective argument. The sense of reinsurance reflects a sense of confidence about the patient's situation, in the absence of objective argument. Gut Feelings plays a key role in the diagnostic reasoning in general practice. A questionnaire measuring the Gut Feelings was validated in French after a linguistic validation procedure. The objective of the research is to calculate the precision of the sense of alarm the general practitioner facing a consultant for chest pain or dyspnea and patient

Conditions

• Chest Pain
• Dyspnea

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-10-21
• Primary completion: 2018-05-09
• Completion: 2018-05-09
• First posted: 2016-10-13
• Last updated: 2018-11-20

Locations

11 sites across 1 country: France