Clinical and Economic Assessment of a Pre-frail Screening Program

Consorci Sanitari del Maresme

Status: Completed

Conditions: Elderly; Pre-frail

Treatments: Other: Multidisciplinary intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02138968

CEIC 17/13 (Other Identifier)

17/13

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study intervention improves functional capacity and delays frailty status in pre-frail elderly subjects.

Enrollment: 170 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 70+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• More than 70 years consulting in primary care
• Non institutionalized
• Pre-frailty according to L.Fried criteria (1 or 2 criteria)
• Signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Patient not able to stand by himself/herself
• Dementia
• Palliative care or life expectancy less than 6 months
• Blind patient
• unstable clinical situation
• Participation in other programs, studies or trials for elderly people

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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170 participants in 2 patient groups

Multidimensional intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Multidimensional intervention based on: good control of baseline diseases, review of medication adequacy, exercise program, nutritional assessment and control, social assessment and control.

Treatment:

Other: Multidisciplinary intervention

Usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care