Risk-score Based ICU Triage

Completed

Conditions studied: Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (nSTEMI)

In brief

The investigators have created a new risk score that predicts whether initially stable patients with myocardial infarctions (heart attacks) will require intensive care while they are in the hospital. To evaluate how well this risk score works, the investigators plan to calculate this risk score for every patient that comes to the hospital with a heart attack, provide the risk score to the emergency room doctor treating the patient, and determine whether each patient required intensive care while they were in the hospital. The investigators will then evaluate whether giving emergency room doctors access to this risk score reduced costs of taking care of heart attack patients compared with previous years.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03390270

Run by

Duke University

People needed

462

Starts

2018-02-14

Expected to finish

2019-08-31

Last updated by the study team

2019-09-30

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Presents to DUMC with elevated cardiac troponin
• Identified by ED physician as having myocardial infarction

You may not qualify if…

• ST segment elevation myocardial infarction
• Hemodynamically unstable

Where it is running

• Duke University — Durham, North Carolina, United States

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