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Cognitive Assessment of Elderly Primary Care Patients

NCT01492335 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 524

Last updated 2016-01-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Most primary care physicians do not screen older patients for cognitive impairment. Identification of cognitive impairment may result in earlier referral for diagnostic work-up and earlier treatment and better patient outcomes. The purpose of this study is to determine whether physicians who receive the results of a cognitive screen use this information in treatment plans and whether this results in better cognitive outcomes for the older patients.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Report

Physicians in the Cognitive Report group receive the results of their patients cognitive assessment which includes a clinical diagnosis (Normal, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dementia) and treatment recommendations

BEHAVIORAL

Treatment As Usual

Physicians in the Treatment As Usual group do not receive the results of their patients cognitive assessments, they are not given treatment recommendations nor are they told of the patients clinical diagnosis (Normal, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dementia).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Judith Saxton, PhD · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-01-31
Primary Completion
2011-10-31
Completion
2012-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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