Performances of a Brief Assessment Tool… | Clinical Trial

Key information

Conditions

Cognitive Impairment Bone Diseases Bone Diseases, Metabolic Cognition Disorders Cognitive Dysfunction Ear Diseases Eye Diseases Female Urogenital Diseases Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications Hearing Disorders Hearing Impairment Hearing Loss Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Male Urogenital Diseases Malnutrition Mental Disorders Metabolic Diseases Mood Disorders Musculoskeletal Diseases Nervous System Diseases Neurocognitive Disorders Neurologic Manifestations Nutrition Disorders Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases Osteoporosis Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Sensation Disorders Signs and Symptoms Urinary Incontinence Urination Disorders Urogenital Diseases Urologic Diseases Urological Manifestations Vision Disorders Visual Impairment

Age range

70 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Departement of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine

Lausanne, Canton of Vaud, 1011, Switzerland

About this study

The AGE (Active Geriatric Evaluation) program is a collaborative project between a primary care institution and a specialised geriatric unit that aims to develop a brief assessment tool (BAT) adapted to the primary care setting. The objective of this study is to assess the performances of the BAT to identify major geriatric syndromes: cognitive impairment; mood disorder; functional impairment; urinary incontinence; malnutrition; gait and balance impairment; osteoporosis; hearing impairment; visual impairment.

In order to achieve our objective, we plan to recruit 155 patients > 70 years old in primary care settings for which primary care physicians will perform the BAT (composed of specific questions and clinical exams). At the end of the consultation, the primary care physician will fill a questionnaire where the absence/presence of syndromes will be recorded (according to the findings of the BAT). Each patient will be then seen a second time by expert geriatricians that will perform a full geriatric evaluation (90 minutes). This will allow to calculate the performances of the intervention (BAT) in terms of sensibility /specificity,...

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Age > 70 years
follow-up by general practitioner
good understanding of french or presence of a translater
No previous or on-going geriatric consultation
Patient able to provide consent or a relative is present that can provide a consent instead

Exclusion criteria

Age < 70 years
No follow-up by general practitioner
Unable to understand French or absence of a translater
On-going geriatric follow-up
Patient unable to provide consent or a relative is absent

Treatment and study plan

brief geriatric assessment

Other

All participants will be screened for geriatric syndromes using the brief assessment tool. Mix a simple questions and simple tests

Primary outcomes

Sensibility and specificity

Time frame: one year

performances of the brief assessment tool (BAT) will be measured by calculating sensibility and specificity for each of the geriatric syndromes: cognitive impairment; mood disorder; functional impairment; urinary incontinence; malnutrition; gait and balance impairment; osteoporosis; hearing impairment; visual impairment

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Lausanne

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Study AGE - Part 2 (Active Geriatric Evaluation for General Practitioner), Performances of a Brief Assessment Tool for the Early Diagnosis of Geriatric Syndromes by Primary Care Physicians

Important dates

Study start: 2013
Primary completion: 2014
Study completion: 2014
First posted: Mar 21, 2013
Registry last updated: Jan 9, 2018

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