Randomized Controlled Trial of Health Care to Elderly Patients.

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma; Fractures; Angina Pectoris; Pneumonia; Congestive Heart Failure

Treatments: Other: usual care; Other: Multicomponent treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00235404

REK 037-03

Details and patient eligibility

About

To study the efficacy of multicomponent treatment and care for patients with acute illness or deterioration of a chronic disease at a nursing home in primary health care compared to traditional treatment at hospital.

Full description

Managers at St. Olavs University Hospital and the City of Trondheim local authority decided in 2001 to establish a reinforced department at a nursing home with a multicomponent approach to patient treatment.

In the study treatment at a nursing home will be compared with conventional treatment in ordinary hospital beds in medical, surgical and orthopedic departments at a hospital. Participating doctors at the hospital together with general practitioners shall develope inclusion criteria through Delphi technique. Eligible participants will be hospitalized from their ordinary home and expected to return to home after treatment. When an eligible patient is identified and accepted for inclusion, randomization will be performed by the Clinical Research Department at the Faculty of Medicine.

Enrollment: 142 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participating doctors at the hospital together with general practitioners shall develope inclusion criteria through Delphi technique.

Exclusion criteria

• Participating doctors at the hospital together with general practitioners shall develope exclusion criteria through Delphi technique.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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142 participants in 2 patient groups

Intermediate community hospital

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Multicomponent treatment

Usual care

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: usual care