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Health Care Courses of Elderly Hospitalized Patients for Inappropriate Reasons: Qualitative and Economic Analyzes

NCT02749669 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 22

Last updated 2017-02-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

For almost 17 % of cases patients over 75 years are sent for inappropriate reasons to the emergency unit. They are described as inappropriate hospitalization because they don't require the use of technical platform or diagnostic neither therapeutic procedures under medical supervision. Those are inappropriate because the patient could have a paramedical and social care at home or in more efficient structures. The hospital remains the place of remedy for social and health situations whose resolution was not possible because of a lack of infrastructure available, of patient or his relative information, or a lack of coordination in medico-social establishment.

These inappropriate hospitalizations involve an increase of length of stay that enhancing the fragility and vulnerability of the elderly. They have deleterious effects as decompensation, comorbidities and loss of autonomy.

Moreover, the suffering of natural or informal caregivers is also an important public health question; Caregivers may have a serious disease resulting from caring their relative. That leads to increase their consumption of health care and medical goods.

This comprehensive study will highlight the deficiencies of the actual health care through the analysis of the speech of the different parts involved (main study). Simultaneously, a comparative analysis of the costs of health care will be conducted (economic combined study).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Qualitative research

Semi-structured Interviews

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Régis AUBRY

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Séverine KOEBERLE, Dr · Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon

  • Thomas TANNOU, Dr · Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-03-31
Primary Completion
2016-08-31
Completion
2017-02-28

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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Diseases

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