MIStreatment Screening in Elders Before Discharge (MISSED)

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Geriatric Assessment; Geriatrics; Self Neglect; Health Services for the Aged; Elder Abuse; Aged; Surveys and Questionnaires

Treatments: Other: NCAEM EM-SART Pre-Screen

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05807568

HSC-MS-22-1009

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of introducing, implementing, and integrating a brief, existent elder mistreatment screening tool (the National Collaboratory to Address Elder Mistreatment (NCAEM)'s Elder Mistreatment - Screening And Response Tool (EM-SART) Pre-Screen) in the Memorial Herman Hospital (MHH)-Texas Medical Center (TMC)Acute Care of Elders(ACE) (MHH-TMC ACE) unit and to identify older adults who may already be suffering from abuse, neglect, and/or financial exploitation, as well as connecting the study participants to the primary Geriatric Medicine team on the ACE unit such that additional care, evaluation (including additional in-depth mistreatment screening), and intervention can be taken to prevent and minimize further harm prior to discharge. The investigators hope to reduce missed opportunities for mistreatment detection to lead to safer health outcomes and hospital discharges.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• current admission to the MHH-TMC ACE unit
• ability to independently hear, understand, and verbally answer the 3 participant questions on the NCAEM's EM-SART Pre-Screen screening tool when it is read to them

Exclusion criteria

• unwillingness to participate in the research study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

NCAEM EM-SART Pre-Screen

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: NCAEM EM-SART Pre-Screen