Table 2.
Schedule of essential data capture and participant-related procedures
| Data collection time point (→) | In the emergency department (ED) | Post-randomisation follow-ups | |||
| Data capture/key trial procedure (↓) | Recruitment (day 0) |
Post-recruitment (baseline) |
30 days | 3 months | 6 months |
| Screening, consent & randomisation | X | ||||
| Case report form including safety reporting | X | X | X | X | X |
| Sociodemographic details | X | ||||
| Injury details | X | ||||
| Injury Severity Score | X | ||||
| Comorbidities | X | ||||
| National Early Warning Score (routinely collected) | X | ||||
| PROMs; pain (Brief Pain Inventory) | X | X | X | X | |
| PROMs; function (Brief Pain Inventory) | X | X | X | X | |
| PROMs; breathlessness (MRC Dyspnoea Scale) | X | X | X | X | |
| PROMs; quality of life (EQ-5D-5L) | X | X | X | X | |
| PROMs; Impact Events Scale | X | X | X | ||
| Patient-completed resource use questionnaire | X | X | |||
| Pleural interventions | X | ||||
| Complications | X | ||||
| Days of pleural drainage | X | ||||
| Length of stay (hospital and critical care (including HDU) admission and readmission) | X | ||||
| Details of reattendances to A&E or unplanned readmissions within 30 days | X | ||||
| Mortality | X | X | |||
| Qualitative interviews | X | X | |||
A&E, accident and emergency; HDU, high-dependency unit; MRC, Medical Research Council; PROMs, patient-reported outcome measures.