- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03768050
Evaluation of Community-based Care for the Frail Elderly
Protocol for the Evaluation of Community-based Care for the Frail Elderly in Badalona Serveis Assistencials
The term frail chronic complex patient (CCP) is generally applied to subjects with heterogeneous conditions that may represent at least one of the following three traits: (i) the need for management by a number of specialists from different disciplines that often leads to high use of healthcare resources; (ii) fragility, which requires additional support either due to functional decline, social deficits and/or transient situations such as hospital discharge or, (iii) the need for highly specialised care with home technological support.
The current protocol deals with the second category of patients, frail CCP, and addresses horizontal integration of community-based services. It is based in the city of Badalona (216K inhabitants), within the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Badalona Serveis Assistencials (BSA) is the service provider of integrated care services for this population.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
The study will assess three types of specific groups of patients: (i) Early discharge group includes patients acutely admitted to the medical and/or surgical hospital wards and promptly discharged to receive home-based post-acute care and/or rehabilitation; (ii) Home-based Case Management group includes complex chronic patients or patients receiving long-term care by a case management nurse; and (iii) Geriatric residences group will include patients receiving acute support, post-acute or continued care for elderly people living in geriatric residences.
It will be conducted by Badalona Serveis Assistencials (BSA), an integrated care service provider located in the city of Badalona (420K inhabitants) in the North-Eastern part of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area.
The current study protocol aims to assess cost-effectiveness of the three types of interventions for frail patients, as well as to generate a roadmap for regional scalability of the service. The study design will consist of a prospective quasi-experimental case-control design wherein each intervention group will be compared with the corresponding usual care group (controls, 1:1 ratio), using propensity score matching. Age, sex, GMA (adjusted morbidity groups), socioeconomic status, number of hospitalisations during the previous year and polypharmacy will be used as matching variables.
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Jordi Piera, PhD
- Phone Number: +34932275747
- Email: jpiera@bsa.cat
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Josep Roca, MD
- Phone Number: +34932275747
- Email: jroca@clinic.cat
Study Locations
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Catalonia
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Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 08036
- Recruiting
- Hospital Clínic
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Contact:
- Josep Roca, MD
- Phone Number: +34932275747
- Email: jroca@clinic.cat
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria
- Age ≥ 65 years.
- Complexity: ≥ 2 chronic diseases
- Polypharmacy: ≥ 4 drugs
- Registered as complex chronic patient
- ≥ 3 hospital or emergency room readmissions in the last year
- Having suffered a recent acute illness requiring continuous clinical and/or rehabilitative care by the Home Hospitalisation Unit or primary care.
- To be admitted in one of the geriatric residences of the territory of Badalona, Montgat and Tiana.
Exclusion criteria
- Any neurological disease (e.g. severe-phase dementia with global deterioration scale (GDS) ≥ 7) or psychiatrically severe enough not to allow the subject to respond to questionnaires.
- Subjects who do not agree to participate in the study.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
- Allocation: Non-Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Active Comparator: Advanced care for frail elderly
Integrated care program for frail elderly covering Home Hospitalization/Early Discharge; geriatric residences and; home-based case management done by dedicated teams specialised in geriatric medicine
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Home-based case management group receives advanced nursing care meeting the health and social needs of patient and/or carer. It is carried out through a process of evaluation, planning&coordination, facilitating the provision, monitoring and evaluation of the options and resources necessary for the resolution of the case. It is person-centred. The service also provides palliative care. Home hospitalisation/early discharge dispenses medical and nursing care at home on a transient basis after hospitalisation when patients still need surveillance and assistance. It is done in the acute, subacute or post-acute phase. In the last phase the focus is on functional recovery. The geriatric residences group is assisted by health care teams with expertise in geriatrics. They coordinate with primary care and health professionals of the residences to improve the attention. They are highly accessible, have high-resolutive capacity and can activate the resources of the healthcare network. |
No Intervention: Standard care
Usual care at the community and geriatric residences by primary care physicians
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Costs
Time Frame: 30 days
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Health Care Costs
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30 days
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Number of hospital admissions
Time Frame: 30 days
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Number of hospital admissions during the study period
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30 days
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Patient centred healthcare provision
Time Frame: 30 days
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Patient centred healthcare provision as measured by the Person Centred Coordinated Experience Questionnaire
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30 days
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Continuity of care within the healthcare system
Time Frame: 30 days
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Continuity of care within the healthcare system as measured by the Nijmegen Continuity of Care Questionnaire
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30 days
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Josep Roca, MD, Hospital Clínic
Publications and helpful links
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
Study Completion (Anticipated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- SELFIE-BSA
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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