MedTrace Logo

Acute Medical Admissions of ELDERly Patients (ELDER)

NCT02395718 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 430

Last updated 2017-02-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To evaluate differences in health outcomes among elderly patients (age ≥ 75 years) treated in a Quick Diagnostic Unit (QDU) compared to the Department of Internal Medicine (DIM). A QDU is a medical Short Stay Unit (SSU).

Conditions

  • Geriatric Disorder

Interventions

OTHER

QDU

Treatment in a QDU. Intervention being fast track model for diagnostics and treatment with a goal of accomplishing a short-term hospitalisation (see description QDU arm)

OTHER

DIM

Treatment at a ward at the DIM. Traditional inward hospitalisation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Region Zealand

    collaborator OTHER

  • Holbaek Sygehus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Camilla Stroem, MD · Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Holbaek Sygehus, Copenhagen University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-10-31
Completion
2016-10-31

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

More Related Trials

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT02395718 on ClinicalTrials.gov