NCT03074084

Acute Abdomen in Adults- a Prospective Study on Emergency Department Admissions

Acute Abdomen in Adults- a Prospective Study on Causes of Abdominal Pain Leading to Emergency Department Admission in Tampere University Hospital

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tampere University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a non-randomized, prospective, population-based, single-center study designed to evaluate conditions resulting emergency admission in patients with abdominal pain. Furthermore, we are interested in how many patients are discharged with "non-specific abdominal pain" but later readmitted and diagnosed with a specific diagnosis.

Detailed description

1000 adult patients with acute abdominal pain will be recruited at Tampere University Hospital Emergency department. The patients will fill in a questionaire about the symptoms and their duration. A urine sample will be collected for polyamine molecule analysis with an electronic nose. At later stage of the study, a serum sample for coeliac tests will be collected. Patient outcome will be obtained during the hospital stay, at one-month after discharge and at one year.

Conditions

• Abdominal Pain

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-01
• Primary completion: 2021-12-01
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2017-03-08
• Last updated: 2020-03-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland