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Telemedicine and Nursing Home (GERONTACCESS)

U

University of Limoges (UL)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Multimorbidity
Elderly

Treatments

Other: Usual Care
Other: Telemedicine

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02816177
I14036/GERONTACCESS

Details and patient eligibility

About

Telemedicine-based care provides remote health and social care to maintain people's autonomy and increase their quality of life. The rapidly aging population has come with a significant increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases and their effects, and thus the need for increased care and welfare.

This solutions give a new opportunity for diagnosis, treatment, education, and rehabilitation, and make it possible to monitor patients with a number of chronic diseases. It also reduces socioeconomic disparity with regard to access to care and gives equal chances to patients from urban and rural areas.

This a randomized trial of telemedicine versus usual care alone to reduce hospitalization and emergency hospital admissions for Nursing Home Residents .

After an initial assessment , each participant is monitored by teleconsultation on six occasions over 12 months. Patients with usual care have an initial and a 12 months assessments.

Enrollment

428 patients

Sex

All

Ages

60+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Elderly over 60 years

    • Resident in nursing homes
    • Resident with multiples chronic diseases with at least two comorbidities
    • Having given free and informed consent in writing and signed by himself and / or his legal representative

Exclusion criteria

  • Resident unaffiliated or not beneficiary of Social Security
  • Resident with a life-threatening disease

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

428 participants in 2 patient groups

Telemedicine
Experimental group
Description:
Usual care and telemedicine consultations during12 months.
Treatment:
Other: Telemedicine
Other: Usual Care
Usual care alone
Active Comparator group
Description:
Usual care during12 months.
Treatment:
Other: Usual Care

Trial contacts and locations

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