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Central Utrecht Elderly Care Project

Completed
Conditions
chronische ziekten
frailty
multimorbidity
Registration Number
NL-OMON34794
Lead Sponsor
niversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
5000
Inclusion Criteria

Potentially frail older people; patients of 60 years and older in general practice setting with one or more of the following three criteria:
- multimorbidity (defined as a frailty index score of 0.20 or higher, for eleborate details see chapter 5 of the protocol), AND/OR
- polypharmacy (5 or more different drugs in actual chronic use), AND/OR
- care gap (more than three years no contact with the general practice, except for the yearly influenzae vaccination)

Exclusion Criteria

- terminally ill patients
- patients living in an elderly care home or nursing home
- patients on a waiting list for an elderly care home or nursing home

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>The primary outcome parameter is change in daily functioning. Daily functioning<br /><br>(ADL) is measured with the Katz 15 questionnaire which is embedded in the<br /><br>Minimal Data Set questionnaire.</p><br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
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