Albrecht, Rainer
Espejo, Tanguy
Riedel, Henk B.
Nissen, Søren K.
Banerjee, Jay
Conroy, Simon P.
Dreher-Hummel, Thomas
Brabrand, Mikkel
Bingisser, Roland
Nickel, Christian H.
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Basel
Article History
Received: 28 June 2023
Accepted: 19 October 2023
First Online: 16 November 2023
Declarations
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: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.
: This study was approved by the local Ethics Committee (EKNZ, Nr. 236/13) and conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The study is registered on the Clinicaltrials.gov website (study N° NCT05400707). All patients presenting to the ED of the University Hospital Basel during the study period were screened for inclusion.
: Patients who were unable to provide verbal informed consent (e.g., treatment in the resuscitation bay or immediate transfer to the OR) were not included. Of note, patients with cognitive impairment who were able to provide verbal consent were not excluded to minimize bias, in accordance with previous recommendations [3334]. The analysis included all index visits from patients aged 65 and over.