Status:
COMPLETED
Effects of a Dementia-friendly Program
Lead Sponsor:
University Hospital, Akershus
Conditions:
Delirium
Cognitive Impairment
Eligibility:
All Genders
75+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Frail older persons with cognitive impairment are at special risk of experiencing delirium during acute hospitalisation. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a dementia-friendly hospit...
Detailed Description
Study design This study, has a non-equivalent control group design and a historical control Group. The Control group received usual care and the experimental group received usual care plus the dementi...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients ≥75 years
- acute admission to the cardiac or pulmonary wards.
- Patient who has given informed written consent, or proxy consent from relatives for patients who lacked cognitive capacity.
Exclusion
- Readmitted patients enrolled in a previous hospital stay.
- Patients who do not have sufficient verbal function or hearing to communicate
- Patients in a coma or too ill to participate
- Patients who are isolated
- Patients who do not wish to participate or relatives who do not want the patient to participate, in the cases where the patient lacked cognitive capacity to consent.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 22 2018
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
June 16 2020
Estimated Enrollment :
423 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04737733
Start Date
November 22 2018
End Date
June 16 2020
Last Update
February 4 2021
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University hospital, Akershus
Lørenskog, Norway, 1478