Status:
UNKNOWN
Evaluation of Community-based Care for the Frail Elderly
Lead Sponsor:
Hospital Clinic of Barcelona
Conditions:
Chronic Disease
Frail Elderly Syndrome
Eligibility:
All Genders
65+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The term frail chronic complex patient (CCP) is generally applied to subjects with heterogeneous conditions that may represent at least one of the following three traits: (i) the need for management b...
Detailed Description
The study will assess three types of specific groups of patients: (i) Early discharge group includes patients acutely admitted to the medical and/or surgical hospital wards and promptly discharged to ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion Criteria
- Age ≥ 65 years.
- Complexity: ≥ 2 chronic diseases
- Polypharmacy: ≥ 4 drugs
- Registered as complex chronic patient
- ≥ 3 hospital or emergency room readmissions in the last year
- Having suffered a recent acute illness requiring continuous clinical and/or rehabilitative care by the Home Hospitalisation Unit or primary care.
- To be admitted in one of the geriatric residences of the territory of Badalona, Montgat and Tiana.
- Exclusion criteria
- Any neurological disease (e.g. severe-phase dementia with global deterioration scale (GDS) ≥ 7) or psychiatrically severe enough not to allow the subject to respond to questionnaires.
- Subjects who do not agree to participate in the study.
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 1 2018
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
April 1 2019
Estimated Enrollment :
500 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03768050
Start Date
April 1 2018
End Date
April 1 2019
Last Update
December 7 2018
Active Locations (1)
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Hospital Clinic
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 08036