Arrowe Park Hospital (UK), Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (UK) and Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg (DE) have officially been opened as participating centers! Heidelberg already included their first patient. Alesund Hospital (NO) has had the SIV, and will be open for recruitment soon!
1. Haaglanden Medisch Centrum, NL (15 patients). PI: Korné Jellema.
2. Nottingham University Hospital Trust, UK (11 patients). PI: Kailash Krishnan.
3. University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, DE (10 patients). PI: Götz Thomalla.
3. Kings College Hospital, UK (10 patients). PI: Rohan Pathansali.
4. Calderdale Royal Hospital, UK (7 patients). PI: Anand Nair.
4. Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) di Mantova, IT (7 patients). PI: Alfonso Ciccone.
5. Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, NL (6 patients). PI: Diederik van de Beek
* With the exception of UMC Utrecht, NL (50 patients)
In a recently accepted paper in the European Stroke Journal (ESJ), Willeke Westendorp and colleagues described a prediction model based on the data of the PASS trial. In this model, post-stroke pneumonia was predicted by higher age, male sex, pre-stroke disability, medical history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, more severe stroke, dysphagia and intracerebral haemorrhage (rather than ischaemic stroke). Based on the prediction rule, risks for pneumonia ranged from 0.4% to 56.2%!
Higher age and more severe stroke were the most important predictors for post-stroke pneumonia. Therefore, this study provides additional evidence that preventive treatment strategies can best be tested in populations like that of PRECIOUS!
Coordinator
University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Dr. Bart van der Worp
Project Management
ARTTIC, Germany
Sophie Rau
