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NCT Number: NCT02900391

Urgent Care for the Elderly: Impairment and Home Care Services

Elderly population is increasing quickly and their need for health care ressources through emergency care is also growing. While these patients are ageing physical impairment often happens along the way. Apart from senior homes, different types and levels of home care services have been developped in order to overcome or to adapt to these situations.

Our goals are:

* to assess mortality rate depending on home care services level for the elderly population consulting in the ED or being taken in charge by the Emergency Medical System in France. * to describe this population in terms of autonomy, impairment and home care services

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Key information

Conditions

Impaired

Age range

80 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • patients aged 80 and over

Exclusion criteria

  • aged<80 years old

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. Mortality rate at hospital discharge

    Time frame: At hospital discharge or 30 days at most

    Mortality rate at hospital discharge

Secondary outcomes

  1. Admission rate

    Time frame: Admission is decided on the first 24 hours after EMS or ED care, the day of the inclusion

    Admission in a medical, surgical or psychiatric unit are considered

  2. Level of home care services

    Time frame: Questionnaires given the day of the inclusion

    Different items in a questionnaire are asked to the patient or family concerning weekly home care services use for patient usually (which type and how often)

  3. Level of health care ressources

    Time frame: During the ED visit (less than 24 hours), the day of the inclusion

    Lab investigations, radiology, surgery, treatment administered

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

European Georges Pompidou Hospital

Other

Registry information

Acronym: EPIGER

Important dates

Study start
2016
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Sep 14, 2016
Registry last updated
Sep 14, 2016

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