Diagnosis and Treatment of ACS in the ED: The Impact of Rapid Bedside cTnI Testing on Outcomes

CompletedOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment

2,000

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

December 31, 2004

Primary Completion Date

November 30, 2006

Study Completion Date

March 31, 2007

Conditions
Angina, Unstable
Interventions
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Point of Care cTnL testing

"The study design will be a phase IV prospective, randomized (1:1), parallel-group trial utilizing concurrent controls. The experimental group of interest will be patients receiving the POC cTnI test, and the control group will be patients receiving the central laboratory cTnI test.~The treating physician will be blinded to the randomization and will receive only the POC results from half the study patients and only the laboratory results for the remaining half."

Trial Locations (4)

45236

The Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati

48073

William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak

94305-6203

Stanford University, Stanford

19104-6205

The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Sponsors

Collaborators (2)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Abbott

INDUSTRY

collaborator

Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

OTHER

collaborator

University of Pennsylvania

OTHER

collaborator

Stanford University

OTHER

collaborator

Mayo Clinic

OTHER

lead

University of Cincinnati

OTHER

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