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Guided Care: Integrating High Tech and High Touch

NCT00121940 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 904

Last updated 2012-04-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of a Guided Care nurse on the quality of the health and well-being of the frail elderly. A specially trained registered nurse will work closely with 1-3 primary care physicians to provide the most complex older patients (and their unpaid caregivers) with health care that is comprehensive, coordinated, patient-centered, and proactive. The study will evaluate the effects of Guided Care on:

* older persons' physical and mental health, health services utilization, quality of care, self-efficacy, and satisfaction with care;
* older persons' unpaid caregivers' burden; and
* primary care physicians' satisfaction with their care of chronically ill patients.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Guided Care

Specially trained registered nurse (Guided Care Nurse) based in a primary care practice collaborates with two primary care physicians to provide seven services for 40-60 high-risk patients: comprehensive assessment and care planning; "best practices" for chronic conditions; self-management; healthy lifestyles; coordinating care; educating and supporting unpaid caregivers; and accessing community resources.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

    collaborator FED

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • The John A. Hartford Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • The Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Charles Boult, MD, MPH, MBA · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-02-28
Primary Completion
2009-06-30
Completion
2009-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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