Status:
UNKNOWN
Trauma Follow-Up Prediction (Project 2: Aim 1)
Lead Sponsor:
Mefire Alain Chichom
Collaborating Sponsors:
Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health
University of California, Los Angeles
Conditions:
Trauma
Injury Traumatic
Eligibility:
All Genders
Brief Summary
Traumatic injury and inadequate follow-up care are a significant cause of morbidity and 10% of all deaths in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In Cameroon, \~50% of all emergency department (ED) visits are du...
Detailed Description
Injury is the largest contributor to the global burden of surgical disease and the cause of 10% of all deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In SSA countries like Cameroon, injured people face multiple ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Trauma Registry (CTR): Patients satisfying the following inclusion criteria will be included in the registry:
- Patients with acute traumatic injury i.e. within 2 weeks of presentation for care.
- Trauma patients who are formally admitted to the hospital as in-patients.
- Trauma patients who die upon arriving to the Emergency Departments or while admitted in the hospital.
- Trauma patients who are transferred to other health facilities.
- Trauma patients with indications for hospital admission (based on physicians' assessments) but leave against medical advice
- Trauma patients who are kept under observation in the Emergency Department for over 24 hours
- Standard mHealth Triage Tool Eligibility: The mHealth triage tool will be administered to the subset of patients included in the trauma registry who are admitted then discharged home after treatment.
Exclusion
- Trauma Registry Exclusion criteria: Patients will not be excluded based on age, gender, race, or nationality. If patients or their surrogate decision-maker do not give consent to participation, those patients will be excluded.
- According to the World Health Organization (WHO) injury definition, the following will be excluded from the definition of "injury": "Whereas the above definition of an injury includes drowning (lack of oxygen), hypothermia (lack of heat), strangulation (lack of oxygen), decompression sickness or "the bends" (excess nitrogen compounds) and poisonings (by toxic substances), it does NOT include conditions that result from continual stress, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic back pain and poisoning due to infections. Mental disorders and chronic disability, although these may be eventual consequences of physical injury, are also excluded by the above definition."
- Although included in the WHO definition, poisonings will be excluded from the CTR as these have been extremely rare events in the CTR to date and are not typically included in trauma registries in most other contexts.
- Patients who are not formally admitted and discharged within 24 hours from the Emergency Ward will be excluded.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 15 2023
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
November 15 2024
Estimated Enrollment :
4500 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT05430165
Start Date
May 15 2023
End Date
November 15 2024
Last Update
May 3 2023
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