Death Certificate Analysis and Mortality at a Hospital From Colombian Orinoquia: A Retrospective Observational Trial.
Sponsor study identifier
observational
10,000
1 country
1
Study Start
July 1, 2023
Actual (reported)Primary Completion
December 31, 2023
Actual (reported)Study Completion
May 30, 2024
Actual (reported)By hospital mortality, the health of a population is identified. Death certificates are a valuable tool in establishing causes of death. The objective will be to analyze the main causes of death in hospitalized patients by population groups of interest. A retrospective observational study will be carried out, by analyzing the death databases of the Hospital Departamental of Villavicencio from January 2012 to May 2022. The records will be exported to Excel for review and debugging. Demographic variables and causes of death will be analyzed. The categorical variables will be described in frequency and proportion; the quantitative ones will be defined in their central distribution and dispersion. For comparison, the Chi-square and Mann-Whitney test will be performed according to the characteristics of the outcome studied. It is expected to identify the main causes of death in the groups of interest (adults, maternal, infants, fetal and non-fetal, congenital malformations) and their characteristics.
Registry-reported information. Elapsed time and enrollment totals alone do not measure study progress or recruitment pace.
May 30, 2024
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February 12, 2023
Actual (reported)February 22, 2023
Actual (reported)July 1, 2023
Actual (reported)December 31, 2023
Actual (reported)May 30, 2024
Actual (reported)Number of preventable deaths
Deaths caused by diseases or conditions potentially preventable, according to the Holland criteria, or other authors.
12 years
Death certificates of patients died by cancer or with cancer.
Death certificates of patients died by cardiovascular conditions or complications.
Death certificates of patients died by or with tuberculosis, including patients with HIV.
Death certificates of pediatric patients with more than a month of birth, and less than 18 years old.
Death certificates of patients died by congenital malformations, independently of age.
No diagnostic or therapeutic intervention; the characteristics of subgroups will be analyzed by the cause of death certificated in the registry.
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The population included in the study are those included in the institutional registry of death certification after they died in the hospital or somewhere else, but had to be certified by a doctor from it for any reason. People who died by an external cause included in chapters XIX and XX of 10-ICD were excluded from the study.
Hospital Departamental de Villavicencio
Villavicencio, Meta Department, 50001, Colombia
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Norton Perez Gutierrez, MD
ICU director
10,000 participants (actual enrollment reported by the registry).
First Submitted
February 12, 2023
First Posted
February 22, 2023
Study Start
July 1, 2023
Actual (reported)Colombian Surgical Outcomes Study - COLSOS
Death certificates of patients died by obstetrical conditions during pregnancy or delivery.
Death certificates of patients died by contagious/infectious diseases.
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Sainz-Otero AM, Marin-Paz AJ, Almenara-Barrios J. The Classification of Causes of Historical Mortality (CCHM): A proposal of the study of death records. PLoS One. 2020 Apr 14;15(4):e0231311. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231311. eCollection 2020.
Primary Completion
December 31, 2023
Actual (reported)Study Completion
May 30, 2024
Actual (reported)Last Updated
December 12, 2024
Record last verified: 2024-12
Individual participant data (IPD) is collected from an institutional registry of deceased people retrospectively. Even when it does not contain the personal information of participants, the database will not be shared in a repository. The trial final report will be uploaded in Mendeley Data and published in an indexed journal.
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