Advanced Point-of-care Technology During In-home Assessment Among Older Adults

Summary

Due to ageing-related physiological changes, diagnosing older adults is challenging. Delayed disease recognition lead to adverse health outcomes and increased hospitalisation, which is why there is a need to develop new procedures for timely diagnosis and treatment of older adults. Point-of-care technology, e.g. focused lung ultrasound scan and bedside analysis of blood samples (leucocytes with differential count, electrolytes and creatinine) carried out in the patients' home may support clinical decision-making, and potentially reduce acute hospital admissions.

The trial's overall aim is to investigate whether increased point-of-care technology, i.e. focused lung ultrasound scan and bedside blood analysis, used as in-home diagnostics in older adults with acute respiratory symptoms, can qualify the general practitioner's clinical decision-making for early treatment initiation and eventually reduce acute hospital admission.

Conditions

• Acute Respiratory Disease
• Acute Illness

Interventions

OTHER

Advanced point-of-care technology

The intervention consists of: * focused lung ultrasound scan(FLUS) * venous blood samples for leucocytes with 5-part differential count, creatinin, sodium, potassium, urea

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Odense Patient Data Explorative Network

  collaborator OTHER

• Region of Southern Denmark

  collaborator OTHER

• Kolding Municipality, Denmark

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Karen Elise Jensen Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• AP Moeller Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• Hartmann Fonden

  collaborator OTHER

• Merchant L. F. Foghts Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Director Emil C Hertz and wife Inger Hertz Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Gangsted Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Odense University Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Southern Denmark

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Siri A Smedemark, MD · Department of Clinical Reasearch, University of Southern Denmark

• Karen Andersen-Ranberg, Prof, MD · Odense University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

DIAGNOSTIC

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-10-14

Primary Completion

2023-11-18

Completion

2023-11-18

Countries

• Denmark

Study Locations