Clinical trialNCT00591955CompletedObservational

Infected Elders in the Emergency Department: Outcomes and Processes of Care

SponsorOhio State UniversityEnrollment213Sepsis

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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purpose of this study is to determine factors which predict a complicated hospital course and then to develop from these findings an Emergency Department guideline to assist in knowing who is at highest risk of elderly patients with infection presenting for care.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a FindMyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Jeffrey M Caterino, MD
The Ohio State University Department of Emergency Medicine
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

the Ohio State University Medical Center
Columbus, Ohio, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Jan 2006
Primary completion: 31 Oct 2008
Completion: 30 Sept 2009
Last update posted: 12 Jul 2013
Registered enrollment: 213
Registry id: NCT00591955

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 11 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.