Transfer to Another Health Care Facility Following Critical Illness

This study has been completed.

Sponsors and Collaborators:	University of Chicago The John A. Hartford Foundation American College of Chest Physicians Association of Subspecialty Professors
Information provided by:	University of Chicago
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00484445

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to identify acute and chronic medical conditions that are identifiable early in the course of critical illness that are associated with transfer to another health care facility (versus to home) upon hospital discharge.

Condition
Transfer to a Health Care Facility After Critical Illness

MedlinePlus related topics: Health Facilities

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Observational
Study Design:	Cohort, Retrospective
Official Title:	Transfer to Another Health Care Facility Following Critical Illness

Further study details as provided by University of Chicago:

Biospecimen Retention: None Retained

Biospecimen Description:

Enrollment:	548
Study Start Date:	January 2003
Study Completion Date:	January 2003

Detailed Description:

Many patients who survive critical illness are unable to return home upon hospital discharge and require prolonged or permanent care in other health care facilities. It would be useful to clinicians, researchers, patients, and patients' families to be able to identify early in the course of critical illness those patients who are at increased risk for this outcome. Currently, few data exist regarding the risk factors for this outcome. This study examines a cohort of survivors of critical illness to identify factors associated with transfer to another health care facility upon hospital discharge.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No
Sampling Method:	Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients admitted to an urban medical intensive care unit.

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Admission to the University of Chicago Medical Intensive Care Unit during the following periods: July 1997 to February 1998, November/December 2001, and March/April 2002.

Exclusion Criteria:

Death during the index hospitalization.
Residence in another health care facility 2 weeks prior to admission.

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00484445

Locations

United States, Illinois
University of Chicago Hospitals
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637

Sponsors and Collaborators

University of Chicago

The John A. Hartford Foundation

American College of Chest Physicians

Association of Subspecialty Professors

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Brian K Gehlbach, MD

University of Chicago

More Information

Responsible Party:	University of Chicago ( Brian K. Gehlbach, MD )
Study ID Numbers:	12093B
Study First Received:	June 8, 2007
Last Updated:	December 19, 2007
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00484445
Health Authority:	United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by University of Chicago:

Chronic critical illness
Functional status
Outcomes
Post-ICU

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Critical Illness

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 16, 2009