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Preventive Home Visits for Healthy Pensioners- a Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT00250003 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2005-11-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To investigate whether preventive home visits for healthy persons 75+, made by professional health workers, can change the pattern of care utilization and if the quality of life can improve. The hypothesis is that care utilisation will reduce, mortality decrease and quality of life improve.

Conditions

  • Prevention
  • House Calls

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Preventive home visits

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Umeå University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lars Dahlgren, professor · Epeidemiology and Public Health, Umeå University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2000-02-29
Completion
2001-12-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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