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Comprehensive Validation of Frailty Assessment Tools in Older Adults in Different Clinical and Social Settings

NCT02637518 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1940

Last updated 2016-08-24

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Summary

There is a proved strong evidence of the usefulness of frailty as a predictive factor of relevant and desired outcomes in populations of older adults. Several studies have been published showing the utility of the concept in improving the prognosis accuracy and the prediction of different risks (hospitalisations, surgical and non surgical complications, length of stay, death, incident disability, etc.) in emergency departments, surgical patients, and inpatients with cardiovascular disease. The studies have placed the focus in assessing population risk, while the validation process for these instruments as diagnosis or screening tools has been usually neglected. FRAILTOOLS aims to assess the usefulness as screening and diagnosis tools of some selected instruments to detect frailty in both clinical (Hospital and Primary Care) and social (Nursing Homes) settings, providing diagnostic algorithms clinically sound. Target groups are all of those older adults at risk of frailty (pre-frail) plus those that are frail and are at risk for developing disability. According to the published prevalence of these two conditions, the target population concerned by this project represents around 40-50% of people older than 65, and 60-70% of people older than 75. Once determining the best tools of screening and diagnosis in different settings of care, investigators will research conclusions of these people wherever the level of care they need and currently use. The benefit will spend to the Health System and Social Care as it will provide validated instruments that are necessary to provide an appropriate care for older adults by means of a comprehensive, continued, coordinated and integrated care.

Conditions

  • Syndrome

Interventions

OTHER

Assessment of frailty tools in elderly people

Assessment of the tools as screening/diagnosis instruments in older adults attended in Primary Care. To build the integration of tools in algorithms to be used in each setting of care and along the settings to permit an integrated care in different conditions (isolated assessment or sequential assessment)

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • LEOCADIO RODRIGUEZ MAÑAS, MD, PhD · HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GETAFE

Eligibility

Min Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-05-31
Primary Completion
2016-08-31
Completion
2018-05-31

Countries

  • Spain

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