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Mobile Geriatric Teams: Patient Safety and Healthcare Utilization

NCT03662945 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 62

Last updated 2018-09-11

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Summary

Objective To perform a prospective, controlled and randomized evaluation of the effectiveness of Mobile Geriatric Teams (MGT).

Method Community-dwelling, frail elderly people were randomized to intervention group (n=31, mean age 84) and control group (n=31, mean age 86). Two-year retrospective data and prospective one-year follow up, were analyzed using non-parametric and difference-in-difference (DiD) analyses. Qualitative interviews, were analyzed using content analysis.

Conditions

  • Frail Elderly Syndrome

Interventions

OTHER

Mobile Geriatric Team intervention

Person-centred intervention based on Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Region Jönköping County

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Jonkoping University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sofi Fristedt, Ph D · Jonkoping University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-03-01
Primary Completion
2015-12-20
Completion
2015-12-20

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