Development of Clinical Indicators From the Swiss RAI-HC (IndiRAI)

School of Health Sciences Geneva

Status: Completed

Conditions: Frail Elderly Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Swiss RAI-HC assessment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03139162

74217

Details and patient eligibility

About

The project aims at deriving frailty (FI) and complexity (CI) indices from data collected with the Resident Instrument Assessment - Home Care adapted for Switzerland (RAI-HC). Data were collected in 2015 by trained nurses in clinical routine with the primary purposes of health state assessment and individual home care planning. The study consists in a retrospective secondary analysis of health data from the Minimal Data Set (MDS), used to derive frailty and complexity indices according to published definitions and guidelines for index derivation. The analysis further aims at estimating the predictive power of these indices on undesirable health outcomes (falls, hospitalizations and deaths). The goal is to provide home care institutions and nurses valid algorithms to compute useful clinical indicators without additional assessment that the one routinely done with the RAI-HC.

Enrollment: 10,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Men and women aged 18 or older who were assessed in 2015 with the Swiss RAI-HC in clinical routine for care planning by the Geneva Institution for Home care and Assistance (imad) in Geneva, Switzerland

Exclusion criteria

• Men and women aged 17 or younger and/or who did not receive a full RAI-HC assessment in 2015