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Geriatric Education and Its Effect on Certain Aspects of Hospital Care of the Nursing Home Patients - 12 Month Retrospective Study

NCT01213225 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2011-08-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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

Conditions

  • Frail Elderly
  • Elderly
  • Hospitalization
  • Geriatrics

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Maimonides Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sergey I Genkin · Maimonides Medical Center

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-12-31

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