Impact of Gender on Patients

Completed

Conditions studied: Hospital-acquired Infections

In brief

The purpose of this study is to better understand the relationship between gender (being a man or a woman), infections caught in the hospital, and serious illness. Five hundred seventy patients 18 years of age or older who are critically (seriously) ill and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for at least 48 hours will participate in this study. Patients will be studied while receiving regular ICU treatment according to local standards. Blood specimens will come from patients either as wasted blood (University of Virginia) or blood collected from patients specifically for the study (Vanderbilt University). All patients will be followed daily until death or discharge from the ICU. The researchers believe that they will find a similar risk of infection for men and women overall.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00170560

Run by

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

People needed

635

Starts

2001-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-02-04

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 99. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All patients >= 18 years old admitted to the ICU for >= 48 hours.

You may not qualify if…

• Age < 18 years old.
• Death or discharge within 48 hours of ICU admission.
• Patients not on a surgical service.
• Patients admitted with a primary diagnosis of burns.

Where it is running

• Vanderbilt University — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• University of Virginia — Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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