Performances of a Brief Assessment Tool for the Early Diagnosis of Geriatric Syndromes by Primary Care Physicians

University of Lausanne (UNIL)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoporosis; Malnutrition; Cognitive Impairment; Visual Impairment; Mood Disorders; Hearing Impairment; Urinary Incontinence

Treatments: Other: brief geriatric assessment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01816087

287/2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

The AGE (Active Geriatric Evaluation) aims to develop a brief assessment tool adapted to the primary care setting.

Full description

The AGE (Active Geriatric Evaluation) program is a collaborative project between a primary care institution and a specialised geriatric unit that aims to develop a brief assessment tool (BAT) adapted to the primary care setting. The objective of this study is to assess the performances of the BAT to identify major geriatric syndromes: cognitive impairment; mood disorder; functional impairment; urinary incontinence; malnutrition; gait and balance impairment; osteoporosis; hearing impairment; visual impairment.

In order to achieve our objective, we plan to recruit 155 patients > 70 years old in primary care settings for which primary care physicians will perform the BAT (composed of specific questions and clinical exams). At the end of the consultation, the primary care physician will fill a questionnaire where the absence/presence of syndromes will be recorded (according to the findings of the BAT). Each patient will be then seen a second time by expert geriatricians that will perform a full geriatric evaluation (90 minutes). This will allow to calculate the performances of the intervention (BAT) in terms of sensibility /specificity,...

Enrollment: 86 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 70+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age > 70 years
• follow-up by general practitioner
• good understanding of french or presence of a translater
• No previous or on-going geriatric consultation
• Patient able to provide consent or a relative is present that can provide a consent instead

Exclusion criteria

• Age < 70 years
• No follow-up by general practitioner
• Unable to understand French or absence of a translater
• On-going geriatric follow-up
• Patient unable to provide consent or a relative is absent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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86 participants in 1 patient group

brief assessment tool (BAT)

Experimental group

Description:

all participants will have a brief assessment tool (BAT) for the identification of geriatric syndromes performed by their general practitioner. Afterwards, all participants will have a full geriatric assessment performed by geriatricians

Treatment:

Other: brief geriatric assessment