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Telemedicine and Nursing Home

NCT02816177 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 428

Last updated 2025-07-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Telemedicine-based care provides remote health and social care to maintain people's autonomy and increase their quality of life. The rapidly aging population has come with a significant increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases and their effects, and thus the need for increased care and welfare.

This solutions give a new opportunity for diagnosis, treatment, education, and rehabilitation, and make it possible to monitor patients with a number of chronic diseases. It also reduces socioeconomic disparity with regard to access to care and gives equal chances to patients from urban and rural areas.

This a randomized trial of telemedicine versus usual care alone to reduce hospitalization and emergency hospital admissions for Nursing Home Residents .

After an initial assessment , each participant is monitored by teleconsultation on six occasions over 12 months. Patients with usual care have an initial and a 12 months assessments.

Conditions

  • Elderly
  • Multimorbidity

Interventions

OTHER

Telemedicine

OTHER

Usual Care

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Limoges

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thierry DANTOINE, MD · CHU Limoges

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-07-05
Primary Completion
2018-01-18
Completion
2019-06-30

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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