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Assessment of Functional Ability and Follow-up at Home for Older Medical Patients

NCT02078466 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 380

Last updated 2016-12-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of an intervention that consist of assessment of functional ability, rehabilitation plan and follow-up at home for older medical patients.

The hypothesis is that assessment of functional ability, development of rehabilitation plan and follow-up at home reduce the older medical patient's risk of readmission. Also the intervention is expected to reduce mortality, number of contacts to general practitioners and emergency physician

Conditions

  • Geriatric Disorder

Interventions

OTHER

Assessment of functional ability and follow-up at home

Assessment of functional ability and follow-up at home

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VIA University College

    collaborator OTHER

  • Institute of public health, department of nursing sciences, Århus University, Denmark

    collaborator OTHER

  • Aarhus University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hans Kirkegaard, Professor · Center for Acute Research Aarhus University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-03-31
Primary Completion
2016-11-30
Completion
2016-11-30

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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