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Registration number
ACTRN12607000524493
Ethics application status
Approved
Date submitted
11/09/2007
Date registered
11/10/2007
Date last updated
29/06/2012
Type of registration
Retrospectively registered

Titles & IDs
Public title
Relation between physioterapy praticting and the time of internment
of pacients with stroke
Scientific title
Relation between physioterapy praticting and the time of internment
of pacients with stroke
Secondary ID [1] 475 0
no have secondary ID
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Stroke 2357 0
Physiotherapy 2358 0
Condition category
Condition code
Neurological 2461 2461 0 0
Other neurological disorders
Stroke 2462 2462 0 0
Ischaemic
Stroke 2463 2463 0 0
Haemorrhagic

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Observational
Patient registry
Target follow-up duration
Target follow-up type
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
1. Verifying the incidence and the type of stroke in neurological patients in to the Hospital Governor Celso Ramos of Florianópolis;
2. Measure the existence of signs after a stroke and wich they are;
3. Identify if there was pratice of physiotherapy and for how long;
4. How long the patients stay in to the hospital, and verifying if there was a second patology, and the influence of the physiotherapy and if the physiotherapy accelarate or not the period of internment.
The period of internment of this patients it was from 01/07/2004 to 01/07/2005. The observation was make between 20/02/2006 and 20/07/2006 beside medical archives service of the hospital.
Intervention code [1] 2160 0
Not applicable
Comparator / control treatment
Not applicable
Control group
Historical

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 3361 0
There was a high incidence of stroke in the neurological patients in to the Hospital Governor Celso Ramos that was 50% of the total of neurological practices.
Timepoint [1] 3361 0
Measured each month between 20/02/2006 and 20/05/2006 beside medical archives service of the hospital.
Secondary outcome [1] 5578 0
There was great variation in the periods of internments, where the most patients stayed in to the hospital for 6 to 10 days. The period of internment reduce when the physiotherapy came.
Timepoint [1] 5578 0
Measured each month between 20/05/2006 and 20/07/2006 beside medical archives service of the hospital.

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
Internment's patients with clinical diagnosis of stroke in Hospital Governador Celso Ramos, that realize or not physiotherapy
Minimum age
No limit
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
Another patients with neurological diagnosis didn’t show stroke.

Study design
Purpose
Screening
Duration
Longitudinal
Selection
Defined population
Timing
Retrospective
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
20/02/2006
Actual
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
Sample size
Target
180
Accrual to date
Final
Recruitment outside Australia
Country [1] 601 0
Brazil
State/province [1] 601 0
Santa Catarina

Funding & Sponsors
Funding source category [1] 2613 0
University
Name [1] 2613 0
Faculdade Estacio de Sa de Santa Catarina
Country [1] 2613 0
Brazil
Primary sponsor type
Individual
Name
Pablo Tortato Waltrick
Address
professora Áurea Cruz, street, 372, Bl 4, apto 502. Estreito. Florianópolis-SC CEP:88070-160
Country
Brazil
Secondary sponsor category [1] 2362 0
None
Name [1] 2362 0
Address [1] 2362 0
Country [1] 2362 0
Other collaborator category [1] 36 0
Hospital
Name [1] 36 0
Hospital Governador Celso Ramos
Address [1] 36 0
Irma Benwarda, street, 297 Centro. Florianopolis-SC CEP:88040-970
Country [1] 36 0
Brazil

Ethics approval
Ethics application status
Approved
Ethics committee name [1] 4532 0
Research Ethics Committe of the Hospital Governador Celso Ramos
Ethics committee address [1] 4532 0
Irma Benwarda, street, 297 Centro. Florianopolis-SC CEP:88040-970
Ethics committee country [1] 4532 0
Brazil
Date submitted for ethics approval [1] 4532 0
12/12/2005
Approval date [1] 4532 0
07/02/2006
Ethics approval number [1] 4532 0
003/2006

Summary
Brief summary
The Stroke is one of the most important causes of mortality, hospitalization and disabilities in the developed populations. The general aim of this study was to value the acting of the physiotherapy, connecting it with the time of admission of patients who have had an Stroke, admitted in the Hospital Governor Celso Ramos of Florianópolis, in the period of July of 2004 to July of 2005. The data were collected in the service of medical archive, where 180 handbooks were found. The incidence of the pathology was also checked, type of Stroke, main sequel, number of physiotherapy sessions, time of admission of the patients and secondary pathology. As result one pointed out that the Stroke Ischaemic was present in 81,03 % of the cases, the hemiparesis was one of the most important sequel (25 % of the patients), 15,51 % of this patients received 06 physiotherapy sessions, the majority of the patients (45,69 %) had been admitted in hospital from 6 to 10 days. The systemic arterial high blood pressure was the commoner secondary pathology (25,86 %). The obtained data agree with other researches, besides that, the acting of the physiotherapy signs influence in the reduction of the time of admission of patients with Stroke, although through the collected data was possible to notice that patients which did not receive physiotherapy intervention, remained on average 16 days of admission, whereas the patients who received service remained on average eighty days.
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Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 28045 0
Address 28045 0
Country 28045 0
Phone 28045 0
Fax 28045 0
Email 28045 0
Contact person for public queries
Name 11202 0
Pablo Tortato Waltrick
Address 11202 0
professora Áurea Cruz street, 372, Bl 4, apto 502. Estreito. Florianópolis-SC CEP:88070-160
Country 11202 0
Brazil
Phone 11202 0
(48) 8405-7422
Fax 11202 0
Email 11202 0
[email protected]
Contact person for scientific queries
Name 2130 0
Pablo Tortato Waltrick
Address 2130 0
professora Áurea Cruz street, 372, Bl 4, apto 502. Estreito. Florianópolis-SC CEP:88070-160
Country 2130 0
Brazil
Phone 2130 0
(48) 8405-7422
Fax 2130 0
Email 2130 0
[email protected]

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