(MIGA) Mini Geriatric Assessment To Replace the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Geriatric Disorder

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01318759

0047-11-tav

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) currently used to evaluate elderly people in order to be able to assess their multiple organ pathology, cognitive, functional and social problems. This CGA is a very time consuming tool although a powerful one.

The investigators want to present a new assessment test witch is short and comprehensive tool witch will be checked in ambulatory and in-hospital geriatric patients.

Full description

MIGA test (Mini Geriatric Assessment) includes the following parameters Walking outdoors, Transfer, ADL-Dressing, Washing, Continence, Vision, Hearing, Pain, Sleeping, Weight loss, Get-Up-And-Go test, Short term memory, Clock drawing test, Falls, functional reach of hands, Depression, Behavioral problems, social support, Admissions, Polypharmacy,

All patients will be assessed by the traditional CGA and by the new MIGA test. Time consuming of the two tests will be measured and compared.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elderly people age 65 and above,
• In patients hospitalized in the geriatric department
• Out patients -from the geriatric out patient clinic
• Elderly patients visiting in the emergency room

Exclusion criteria

• People under 65 years old
• Critically ill patients ( acute infection, acute myocardial infarction, hypoxia, hemodynamic instability)