Elderly Patients With Renal Insufficiency: Reasons for Using the Geriatrician, Modalities and Results of the Geriatric Evaluation, Becoming at One Year

NCT ID: NCT04337957

Last Updated: 2020-07-14

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-06-01
• Study Completion Date: 2020-03-31

Brief Summary

The incidence and prevalence of kidney failure increases with age. Elderly people with chronic kidney disease may have factors of fragility (loss of independence, comorbidities, geriatric syndromes) that can complicate the choice and implementation of the nephrological therapeutic project. Joint and early assessment of these patients by a nephrologist and a geriatrician could help to optimize the definition of care objectives and patient pathway.

There is little data on how nephrologists and geriatricians cooperate and on the description of frailties in elderly patients with renal impairment.

In this context, the objective of this study is to describe in a French university hospital the reasons for the use of geriatricians by nephrologists, the modalities of geriatric evaluation and the socio-demographic and medical characteristics (including geriatric syndromes) of very elderly patients with renal insufficiency, and then to become so at one year.

Year of implementation of this research: 2019 based on data from 2017 and 2019. Approximate number of people likely to be included in the research: 100 patients

Detailed Description

There is little data on how nephrologists and geriatricians cooperate and on the description of frailties in elderly patients with renal impairment.

In this context, the objective of this study is to describe in a French university hospital the reasons for the use of geriatricians by nephrologists, the modalities of geriatric evaluation and the socio-demographic and medical characteristics (including geriatric syndromes) of very elderly patients with renal insufficiency, and then to become so at one year.

Secondary objectives :

• describe the modalities of the geriatric evaluation
• describe the socio-demographic, medical characteristics (including fragilities and/or geriatric syndromes) of elderly patients with renal insufficiency
• describe how to become one year old.

Origin and nature of the data collected:

• Socio-demographic, medical and geriatric data (see attached document) based on geriatric assessment medical records (reports of external geriatric consultation and/or intervention by the mobile geriatric team).

The approximate duration of the study will be 9 months. This time includes the time required for statistical analysis and writing an article.

Conditions

Secondary Evaluation Criteria; Comorbidities and Coexisting Conditions; Motility Disorder

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_ONLY
• Study Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE

Interventions

geriatric nephrology

Collection of the geriatrician's opinion

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 75-year-old patient and older
• Renal insufficiency
• Use in 2017 and 2018 of a geriatric evaluation at the Nîmes University Hospital at the request of nephrologists (mobile geriatric team or external geriatric consultation).

Exclusion Criteria

• Patient under guardianship, curatorship or judicial protection
• Patient under 75-year-old

• Minimum Eligible Age: 75 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

CHU de Nîmes

Nîmes, , France

Countries

France

Other Identifiers

Local/2019/VA-1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id