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Geriatric Education and Its Effect on Certain Aspects of Hospital Care of Nursing Home Patients

NCT00384709

Sponsor

Maimonides Medical Center

Status

Completed

Last Update Posted

Aug 18, 2011Estimated

Enrollment

Not provided

Phase

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Conditions

Frail Elderly
Patient Care

Interventions

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Countries

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Protocol Section

Identification Module Status Module Sponsor/Collaborators Module Oversight Module Description Module Conditions Module Design Module Arms/Interventions Module Outcomes Module Eligibility Module Contacts/Locations Module References Module IPD Sharing Statement Module

Results Section

Participant Flow Module Baseline Characteristics Module Outcome Measures Module Adverse Events Module More Info Module

Annotation Section

Annotation Module

Document Section

Large Document Module

Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module Condition Browse Module Intervention Browse Module

Protocol Section

Identification Module

NCT ID

Results Section

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Annotation Section

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Document Section

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Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module

Version Holder

Status Module

Record Verification Date

Aug 2011

Overall Recruitment Status or Expanded Access Status

Completed

Last Known Status

Not provided

Delayed Posting

Not provided

Why Stopped

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Expanded Access Info

Start Date

Sep 2006

Primary Completion Date

Not provided

Completion Date

Oct 2007Actual

First Submitted Date

Oct 3, 2006

First Submission Date that Met QC Criteria

Oct 5, 2006

First Posted Date

Oct 6, 2006Estimated

Results Waived

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Results First Submitted Date

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Results First Submitted that Met QC Criteria

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Results First Posted Date

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Certification/Extension (aka Delayed Results) First Submitted Date

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Certification/Extension First Submitted that Passed QC Review

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Certification/Extension First Posted Date

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Last Update Submitted Date

Aug 17, 2011

Last Update Posted Date

Aug 18, 2011Estimated

Description Module

Brief Summary

Nursing home patients admitted to the hospital pose a significant challenge for health care providers. Geriatric teaching pays particular attention to these admissions and related problems. However, it is yet to be proven, whether geriatric training helps to overcome any of these issues in a better way than through non-geriatric education. The study aims to prove that geriatric training provides advantages over non-geriatric training in caring for nursing home patients admitted to the hospital.

Detailed Description

Context: Nursing home patients admitted to the hospital pose a significant challenge for health care providers. Geriatric age, frailty, multiple readmissions, prolonged length of stay, and high mortality are just a few attributes of nursing home patients in the hospital. Geriatric teaching pays particular attention to these challenging problems. However, it is yet to be proven, whether geriatric training helps to overcome any of these issues in a better way than through non-geriatric education.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that geriatric care provides advantages over non-geriatric training in caring for nursing home patients admitted to the hospital in regards to length of stay, rate of expirations and rate of readmissions. The secondary objective is to compare expirations and readmissions among patients cared for by geriatricians and non-geriatricians.

Design, Setting, and Participants: Retrospective cohort study of patients admitted from Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Nursing Home (MJGNH) to Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) over a certain period of time and under the care of geriatricians, non-geriatric internists, and surgeons. Comparison of the three study groups by age, sex, expiration rate, length of hospital stay (LOS) and readmission rate. Comparison of expired patients by age, sex and average LOS. Comparison of readmissions, expiration rate, by preservation of continuity of care, and by emergency room visits without admission.

Design Module

Study Type

Observational

Number of References to an Expanded Access Study

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Expanded Access Types

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Patient Registry

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Target Follow-Up Duration

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Interventional Study Design

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Biospecimen

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Enrollment

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Eligibility Module

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

All patients admitted to Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) from affiliated Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Nursing Home (MJGNH) for a 3 month period.

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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Sex

All

Sex/Gender Based

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Sex/Gender Description

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Minimum Age

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Maximum Age

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Standard Ages

ChildAdultOlder Adult

Study Population

- All patients admitted to Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) from affiliated Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Nursing Home (MJGNH) for a 3 month period.

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample