A retrospective review of patients' records
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A retrospective observational study to identify the incidence and common causes of acute ankle sprain within the emergency department setting.
IRAS ID
202053
Contact name
Saed Al Bimani
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Southampton
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
18515, ERGO number
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 1 months, 1 days
Research summary
Acute ankle sprain is a traumatic injury affecting lateral capsular ligament complex of ankle joint within 72 hours of occurrence and it is very common injury amongst sports and non-sports people. The increased incidence of ankle sprains demands thorough understanding of patients’ characteristics and injury/activity related factors that might affect the recovery following conservative management. This study will be a retrospective review of patients’ data that is already available in the electronic database of the emergency department at Southampton General Hospital. Patients’ data from April to October 2015 will be reviewed to identify demographic and clinical characteristics of those who attended emergency department with acute ankle sprain. This phase will inform the methodology of the second phase in terms of patients’ characteristics and recruitment.
REC name
West of Scotland REC 3
REC reference
16/WS/0081
Date of REC Opinion
15 Apr 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion