Geriatric Education and Its Effect on Certain Aspects of Hospital Care of the Nursing Home Patients - 12 Month Retrospective Study
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Purpose
Nursing home patients admitted to the hospital poses significant challenge for health care providers. Geriatric teaching pays particular attention to these admissions and related problems. However, it yet to be proven, that geriatric training helps to overcome any of them in better way then non-geriatric education. The study aims to prove that geriatric care provides advantages over non-geriatric training in caring for nursing home patients admitted to the hospital.
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Frail Elderly Elderly Hospitalization Geriatrics |
| Study Type: | Observational |
| Study Design: | Time Perspective: Prospective |
| Official Title: | Geriatric Education and Its Effect on Certain Aspects of Hospital Care of the Nursing Home Patients - 12 Month Retrospective Study |
| Estimated Enrollment: | 20 |
| Study Start Date: | December 2010 |
Context Nursing home patients admitted to the hospital poses significant challenge for health care providers. Geriatric age, frailty, multiple readmissions, prolonged length of stay, and high mortality are just few attributes of nursing home patients in the hospital. Geriatric teaching pays particular attention to these challenging problems. However, it yet to be proven, that geriatric training helps to overcome any of them in better way then 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 12 month period 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, by emergency room visits without admission.
Eligibility| Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
| Sampling Method: | Non-Probability Sample |
65 years of age and older
Inclusion Criteria:
- all patients admitted to Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) from affiliated Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Nursing Home (MJGNH)for `12 month period.
Exclusion Criteria:
- none
Contacts and Locations More Information
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| Responsible Party: | Sergey Genkin, MD, Maimonides Medical Center |
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01213225 History of Changes |
| Other Study ID Numbers: | gerivsnot12month |
| Study First Received: | September 29, 2010 |
| Last Updated: | August 17, 2011 |
| Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Keywords provided by Maimonides Medical Center:
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Elderly Hospitalization Geriatrics |
Mortality Readmission Length of Stay |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 23, 2013