Assessment of an Automated Telesurveillance System on Serious Falls Prevention in an Elderly Suffering From Dementia Specialized Care Unit: the URCC (GET-BETTER)

Assessment of an Automated Telesurveillance System on Serious Falls Prevention in an Elderly Suffering From Dementia Specialized Care Unit: the URCC. GET-BETTER Study (Geriatric Environmental Telecare - Behavioral Engineering Technology To Enhance Rehabilitation)

2 URCC in the Limousin region will be equipped with the automated telesurveillance system. Patient will be selected by ward's geriatrician and randomized into two groups after informed consent. One group will have cameras installed and the other will not and will act as a comparison group. Patient will be assessed twice during the study, at admission in (inclusion visit) and at outcome from the URCC (end of study visit). Each assessment implies a standard geriatric assessment, a fall questionnaire, a Neuropsychiatric inventory for behavioral disturbances and a quality of life questionnaire (EQ5D). Every fall will be considered as adverse events and will therefore be listed along the study and characterized in types and number.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Mentally Ill Old Subjects

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 350

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Limoges, France, 87042
    • Limoges university hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 65 years and older (OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

demented old subjects

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient aged more than 65 years old
• Patient admitted in Limoges or Brive's URCC
• Patient informed consent and/or proxy consent
• Patient covered by the French health insurance

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient without national health insurance coverage
• Patient with a short term prognosis pathology

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

2

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
intervention group; Rooms of the patient of the "intervention group" will be equipped of cameras
reference group; Patient in the "non-equipped" group will have usual care

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
The impact of the automated telesurveillance system	The impact of the automated telesurveillance system on the incidence rate of falls with serious outcomes between the two groups during their hospitalization in URCC.	6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
The impact of the system on the global rate of falls	6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital, Limoges

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: April 1, 2012
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): November 1, 2014
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): February 1, 2015

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 21, 2012
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 21, 2012
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): March 23, 2012

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE): February 13, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 12, 2015
• Last Verified: February 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Neurocognitive Disorders; Dementia
• Other Study ID Numbers: I11 005