Study Human Digital Support Transitional Care (SUNH-ST)

Divoluci

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Aging

Treatments: Procedure: Unscheduled hospital admissions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06354166

2023-A02745-40

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to compare the effectiveness of Divomed in organising complex hospital discharges with a conventional organisation. Effectiveness will be assessed by reducing the length of stay of patients in geriatric short-stay care.

Full description

This is an interventional, randomised (ratio 1:1), single-centre, open-label study evaluating Divomed, a digital tool combined with human coordination, to speed up the discharge of people aged over 75 from unscheduled short-stay geriatric hospital admissions to their homes.

The study population will be patients aged 75 or over, admitted for short term unscheduled geriatric hospitalisation and eligible for discharge home.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥ 75 years ;
• Unplanned hospitalisation from emergency, transfers from other inpatient departments or outpatient medicine;
• Patient eligible for short-stay geriatric hospitalisation estimated to last at least 10 days;
• Patient eligible for a return home;
• Patients who have been informed and have signed an informed consent form. If necessary (for cognitive or other reasons), the information must be given to a third party, i.e. the patient's legal representative or trusted person (independent of the investigator and the sponsor), who may be asked to sign or co-sign the informed consent form (depending on the patient's vulnerability).

Exclusion criteria

• Patients scheduled for transfusion, iron infusion or colonoscopy;
• Patients in palliative care;
• Geographical area other than department 37;
• Planned discharge from hospital to a residential establishment for dependent elderly people or to follow-up and rehabilitation care or long-term care units;
• Patient or deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision ;
• Patient participating in or being excluded from another clinical trial;
• Patients not covered by a social security scheme.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

Divomed digital tool combined with human coordination

Experimental group

Description:

A digital tool combined with human coordination (Divomed) to organise discharge home from the start of hospitalisation. The digital application will be interconnected with the patient's medical file.

Treatment:

Procedure: Unscheduled hospital admissions

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group corresponds to the organisation of conventional hospital discharge from the geriatric short-stay department. The digital application will be interconnected with the patient's medical file.

Treatment:

Procedure: Unscheduled hospital admissions