Among Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) health plan members, age ≥16 years, with recent syncope and presyncope undergoing emergency department (ED) management with a point-of-care clinical decision support (CDS) tool, how well does the Canadian Syncope Risk Score predict 30-day serious outcomes that were not evident during index ED evaluation?
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
4,000
This is a data-only, prospective observational cohort study to validate the performance metrics of the Canadian Syncope Risk Score in a diverse population of patients evaluated in community EDs of a U.S. integrated health care system.
Kaiser Permanente Oakland Emergency Department
Oakland, California, United States
Kaiser Permanente Richmond Emergency Department
Richmond, California, United States
Kaiser Permanente Roseville Emergency Department
Roseville, California, United States
Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Emergency Department
Sacramento, California, United States
Number of patients with arrhythmic and nonarrhythmic serious outcomes
Serious outcomes include those which are arrhythmic (arrhythmias, interventions for arrhythmia, or unknown cause of death) and nonarrhythmic (e.g., myocardial infarction, structural heart disease, pulmonary embolism, or hemorrhage)
Time frame: 30 days
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Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Emergency Department
Sacramento, California, United States