The CareWell-programme for Community-dwelling Frail Elderly Persons.
- Conditions
- Overall FunctioningIncremental Cost-effectiveness Ratio
- Interventions
- Other: The CareWell programme
- Registration Number
- NCT01499797
- Lead Sponsor
- Radboud University Medical Center
- Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the CareWell-programme on overall functioning of community-dwelling frail elderly persons. Furthermore, the total costs and the cost-effectiveness of the CareWell-programme, in comparison with regular medical care, will be studied.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 536
- Frail community dwelling elderly patients aged 70 years or above. Frailty is determined with a two-phase screening instrument.
- Non-frail elders
- Patients in palliative or end-of-life stages of disease
- Patients residing in long-term care facilities (care homes and nursing homes)
- Patients already enrolled in specific dementia-related case-management programmes who lack other health-related problems
- Patients not speaking or understanding the Dutch language
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description The CareWell programme The CareWell programme Identified community dwelling frail elderly people receiving care in line with the CareWell programme
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Overall functioning 18 months Overall functioning is measured with the Katz-15 questionnaire. Katz-15 is embedded in the minimal data set (MDS). This MDS is used by all research projects of the Dutch National Program on Elderly Care
Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) 18 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Perceived quality of life 18 months Perceived quality of life is measured with the RAND-36 questionnaire. RAND-36 is embedded in the minimal data set (MDS). This MDS is used by all research projects of the Dutch National Program on Elderly Care
Psychological well-being 18 months Psychological well-being is measured with the RAND-36 questionnaire.
Social functioning 18 months Social functioning is measured with the RAND-36 questionnaire.
Perceived health 18 months Perceived health is measured with the RAND-36 questionnaire abd Cantril's Self Anchoring Ladder. Both RAND-36 as Cantril's Self Anchoring Ladder are embedded in the minimal data set (MDS).
Utility 18 months Utility is measured with the EQ-5D questionnaire. EQ-5D is embedded in the minimal data set (MDS).
Health care consumption 18 months Health care consumption including hospital resource consumption, unplanned GP care (evenings, nights and weekends), home care, temporary or permanent admission to a residential care home, temporary or permanent admission to a nursing home, day care, visits to outpatients'clinics.
Use of welfare services 18 months
Trial Locations
- Locations (10)
Huisartsenpraktijk Danielsplein, Danielsplein 4
🇳🇱Nijmegen, Netherlands
Huisartsengroep Milbergen (van der Ligt/ Krijgsman), Oude Gracht 16
🇳🇱Beek-Ubbergen, Netherlands
Gezondheidscentrum de Kroonsteen, Schoolstraat 8
🇳🇱Malden, Netherlands
Gezondheidscentrum de Vuursteen, Prinsenweg 6
🇳🇱Molenhoek, Netherlands
Medisch Centrum Brakkenstein, Kanunnik Boenenstraat 8
🇳🇱Nijmegen, Netherlands
Gezondheidscentrum Hazenkamp, Vossenlaan 76
🇳🇱Nijmegen, Netherlands
Medipark (Graat), Hyacinthstraat 3a
🇳🇱Uden, Netherlands
Huisartsenpraktijk Jacobslaan (Dreijerink/ van der Laan-Evers), Jacobslaan 345
🇳🇱Nijmegen, Netherlands
Huisartsenpraktijk de Haterse HOED, Couwenbergstraat 34-36
🇳🇱Nijmegen, Netherlands
Huisartsenpraktijk Ubachs/Vogels, Huissteden 1450
🇳🇱Wijchen, Netherlands