SHORTness of Breath In the Emergency Department (SHORTIE)

Completed · Phase 2/Phase 3

Conditions studied: Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, Pulmonary Embolism

In brief

SHORTIE is a two-phase study to determine the impact of the Triage Profiler S.O.B. (Shortness Of Breath) Panel on patient management, outcome, and cost.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00206830

Run by

Abbott RDx Cardiometabolic

People needed

306

Starts

2005-04-01

Expected to finish

2007-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-07-27

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 18 and older.
• Visit to the ED is due to a primary complaint of shortness of breath alone or shortness of breath with associated chest pain, cough or edema.

You may not qualify if…

• Blood sample cannot be collected before treatment is initiated, specifically CPR or treatment with i.v. diuretics, injectable anticoagulants, thrombolytics
• Patient is unwilling or unable to give consent to participate in the study
• Patient has renal disease requiring dialysis
• Patients with a clear exacerbation of isolated asthma
• Patients with trauma that interferes with normal breathing function

Where it is running

• University of Massachusetts Medical Center USA — Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
• New York Methodist Hospital — Brooklyn, New York, United States
• Stony Brook University Hospital — Stony Brook, New York, United States
• Duke University Hospital Durham — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• Hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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