Paediatric Early Warning System - A Danish Multi-center Study

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
• Main ID: NCT02433327
• Date of registration: 27/04/2015
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Aarhus University Hospital
• Public title: Paediatric Early Warning System - A Danish Multi-center Study
• Scientific title: Paediatric Early Warning System - A Danish Multi-center Study
• Date of first enrolment: January 2014
• Target sample size: 8000
• Recruitment status: Unknown status
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02433327
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Prevention. Masking: None (Open Label).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Denmark

Contacts

• Name: Claus S Jensen, PhD
• Affiliation: Aarhus University Hospital

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- All children admitted to the participating departments

- All children examined at the acute paediatric assessment unit in Central Denmark
Region.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Children admitted to neonatal wards

- Children admitted to intensive care units

- Children dead upon arrival to hospital

- Children admitted due to social-interaction problems.



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: 15 Years
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Paediatric Early Warning System

Intervention(s)

Other: PEWS - trigger tool

Other: RM - trigger tool

Primary Outcome(s)

Unplanned transfers to intensive care or transfers from regional hospitals to university hospital owing to clinical deterioration [Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of 1 week]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Extra Corporal Membran Oxygenation [Time Frame: through study completion an expected average of 2 years]

Paediatric index of mortality score 3 [Time Frame: through study completion an expected average of 2 years]

Length of hospital stay [Time Frame: through study completion an expected average of 2 years]

Invasive ventilation [Time Frame: through study completion an expected average of 2 years]

Length of PICU stay [Time Frame: through study completion an expected average of 2 years]

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure [Time Frame: through study completion an expected average of 2 years]

Use of inotropes [Time Frame: through study completion an expected average of 2 years]

Secondary ID(s)

PEWS

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors