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NCT Number: NCT02816177

Telemedicine and Nursing Home

Telemedicine-based care provides remote health and social care to maintain people's autonomy and increase their quality of life. The rapidly aging population has come with a significant increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases and their effects, and thus the need for increased care and welfare.

This solutions give a new opportunity for diagnosis, treatment, education, and rehabilitation, and make it possible to monitor patients with a number of chronic diseases. It also reduces socioeconomic disparity with regard to access to care and gives equal chances to patients from urban and rural areas.

This a randomized trial of telemedicine versus usual care alone to reduce hospitalization and emergency hospital admissions for Nursing Home Residents .

After an initial assessment , each participant is monitored by teleconsultation on six occasions over 12 months. Patients with usual care have an initial and a 12 months assessments.

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Key information

Conditions

Elderly Multimorbidity

Age range

60 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Service de Gériatrie

Limoges, France

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Elderly over 60 years
  • Resident in nursing homes
  • Resident with multiples chronic diseases with at least two comorbidities
  • Having given free and informed consent in writing and signed by himself and / or his legal representative

Exclusion criteria

  • Resident unaffiliated or not beneficiary of Social Security
  • Resident with a life-threatening disease

Treatment and study plan

Telemedicine

Other

Usual Care

Other

Primary outcomes

  1. Efficacy

    Time frame: 12 month

    Proportion of patients who had an admission to the emergency or unscheduled hospitalization in health service or surgery

Secondary outcomes

  1. MAST

    Time frame: 12 months

    Cost / effectiveness of telemedicine based on the MAST model (Model of Assessment of Telemedicine ).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Limoges

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Impact of Telemedicine on Avoiding Emergency Hospital Admissions and Hospitalization for Nursing Home Residents

Acronym: GERONTACCESS

Important dates

Study start
2016
Primary completion
2018
Study completion
2019
First posted
Jun 28, 2016
Registry last updated
Jul 16, 2025

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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