Screening for Vulnerability in the Elderly Supported at the Oscar Lambret Centre

Centre Oscar Lambret

Status: Completed

Conditions: Solid Tumor

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01415258

VULNERABILITE-1103

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to uncover the prevalence of vulnerability among patients aged ≥ 70 coming to the medical oncology division of the Oscar Lambret Centre, according to the short screening test Vulnerable Elders Survey 13 (VES-13).

The objective is to better understand the value of routine screening of patients before the consultation, it was proposed as a secondary objective of this study to assess the correlation between the identification of the vulnerability in the screening test VES-13 and the identification made by the clinician during the consultation. The correlation between VES-13 and opinion of the clinician for three categories of patients (self - intermediate - fragile) will also be studied.

Enrollment: 209 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 70+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patient aged ≥ 70
• coming for a first visit, whatever the purpose and the disease stage

Exclusion criteria

• neglect or refusal to answer to the VES-13 test