Impact of a Multifaceted Program to Prevent Postoperative Delirium in the Elderly (CONFUCIUS)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Postoperative Delirium

Treatments: Behavioral: Multifaceted prevention program HELP(Hospital Elder Life Program)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01316965

2009.577

Details and patient eligibility

About

Postoperative delirium is common in the elderly and is associated with a significant increase in mortality, complications, length of hospital stay and admission in long care facility. Several interventions have proved their effectiveness to prevent it but their combination within a multifaceted intervention needs to be assessed using rigorous methodology based on randomized study design. CONFUCIUS trial aims to measure the impact of a multifaceted program on the prevention of postoperative delirium in elderly.

Enrollment: 175 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male or female subject aged over 75 years
• Admission for a scheduled surgery (i.e. all oncologic digestive surgery , ureterostomy, nephrectomy or cystectomy, total hip or knee replacement)
• Participation agreement

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with a progressive and/or poorly managed psychiatric pathology (patients with stabilized depression could be included in the study)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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175 participants in 2 patient groups

multifaceted prevention program

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Multifaceted prevention program HELP(Hospital Elder Life Program)

usual care

No Intervention group