Clinical Trial: Psychoactive Drug Use and Acute Care Use After Trauma and Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

U.S., Oct. 21 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07882589) titled 'Psychoactive Drug Use and Acute Care Use After Trauma and Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest' on Oct. 09.

Brief Summary: This retrospective population-based cohort study uses linked administrative healthcare data from the Local Health Authority of Bologna (Italy) to describe the use of four classes of psychoactive drugs (opioids, antiepileptics, antipsychotics, and antidepressants) after hospital discharge in two populations, adults admitted urgently for trauma and adults surviving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and to evaluate whether post-discharge exposure is associated with low-acuity or incomplete emergency department visits and u...