Telemedicine-based, Multidisciplinary-team, Intervention to Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalizations (TeleNH)

Richard Ronan Murphy

Status: Completed

Conditions: Disruptive Behavior; Dementia Alzheimers

Treatments: Behavioral: Behavioral modification and education on pharmacologic treatments.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03378245

13-0664-P3H

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of telemedicine-based intervention at urban and rural skilled nursing facilities to recommend multidisciplinary dementia care to residents with dementia who are at risk for unnecessary hospitalization due behavioral or neuropsychiatric symptoms and/or complications as well as caregivers and facility staff. The multidisciplinary team is comprised of trained behavioral neurologists, social workers, advanced practice providers, primary medical team and nurse coordinators.

Enrollment: 16 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Dementia Care facility resident Problematic behavioral problems

Exclusion criteria

None

Trial design

16 participants in 1 patient group

Telemedicine Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Multidisciplinary telemedicine education of staff and providers on best practices for behavioral modification as well as education on best practices for pharmacologic therapies.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral modification and education on pharmacologic treatments.