Geriatric Education and Its Effect on Certain Aspects of Hospital Care of Nursing Home Patients

NCT ID: NCT00384709

Last Updated: 2011-08-18

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2006-09-30

Study Completion Date

2007-10-31

Brief Summary

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Nursing home patients admitted to the hospital pose a significant challenge for health care providers. Geriatric teaching pays particular attention to these admissions and related problems. However, it is yet to be proven, whether geriatric training helps to overcome any of these issues in a better way than through non-geriatric education. The study aims to prove that geriatric training provides advantages over non-geriatric training in caring for nursing home patients admitted to the hospital.

Detailed Description

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Context: Nursing home patients admitted to the hospital pose a significant challenge for health care providers. Geriatric age, frailty, multiple readmissions, prolonged length of stay, and high mortality are just a few attributes of nursing home patients in the hospital. Geriatric teaching pays particular attention to these challenging problems. However, it is yet to be proven, whether geriatric training helps to overcome any of these issues in a better way than through non-geriatric education.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that geriatric care provides advantages over non-geriatric training in caring for nursing home patients admitted to the hospital in regards to length of stay, rate of expirations and rate of readmissions. The secondary objective is to compare expirations and readmissions among patients cared for by geriatricians and non-geriatricians.

Design, Setting, and Participants: Retrospective cohort study of patients admitted from Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Nursing Home (MJGNH) to Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) over a certain period of time and under the care of geriatricians, non-geriatric internists, and surgeons. Comparison of the three study groups by age, sex, expiration rate, length of hospital stay (LOS) and readmission rate. Comparison of expired patients by age, sex and average LOS. Comparison of readmissions, expiration rate, by preservation of continuity of care, and by emergency room visits without admission.

Conditions

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Frail Elderly Patient Care

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* All patients admitted to Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) from affiliated Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Nursing Home (MJGNH) for a 3 month period.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Maimonides Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Maimonides Medical Center

Principal Investigators

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Sergey I Genkin, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Maimonides Medical Center

Other Identifiers

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gerivsnot

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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