Performances of a Brief Assessment Tool for the Early Diagnosis of Geriatric Syndromes by Primary Care Physicians

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Urinary Incontinence; Malnutrition; Mood Disorders; Hearing Impairment; Cognitive Impairment; Osteoporosis; Visual Impairment
• Interventions: Other: brief geriatric assessment

• Registration Number: NCT01816087
• Lead Sponsor: University of Lausanne

Brief Summary

The AGE (Active Geriatric Evaluation) aims to develop a brief assessment tool adapted to the primary care setting.

Detailed Description

The AGE (Active Geriatric Evaluation) program is a collaborative project between a primary care institution and a specialised geriatric unit that aims to develop a brief assessment tool (BAT) adapted to the primary care setting. The objective of this study is to assess the performances of the BAT to identify major geriatric syndromes: cognitive impairment; mood disorder; functional impairment; urinary incontinence; malnutrition; gait and balance impairment; osteoporosis; hearing impairment; visual impairment.

In order to achieve our objective, we plan to recruit 155 patients \> 70 years old in primary care settings for which primary care physicians will perform the BAT (composed of specific questions and clinical exams). At the end of the consultation, the primary care physician will fill a questionnaire where the absence/presence of syndromes will be recorded (according to the findings of the BAT). Each patient will be then seen a second time by expert geriatricians that will perform a full geriatric evaluation (90 minutes). This will allow to calculate the performances of the intervention (BAT) in terms of sensibility /specificity,...

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2013-02-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-03-18
• Study First Posted: 2013-03-21
• Study Start: 2013-05
• Primary Completion: 2014-11
• Study Completion: 2014-11
• Status Verified: 2018-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-01-05
• Last Update Posted: 2018-01-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 86

Inclusion Criteria

• Age > 70 years
• follow-up by general practitioner
• good understanding of french or presence of a translater
• No previous or on-going geriatric consultation
• Patient able to provide consent or a relative is present that can provide a consent instead

Exclusion Criteria

• Age < 70 years
• No follow-up by general practitioner
• Unable to understand French or absence of a translater
• On-going geriatric follow-up
• Patient unable to provide consent or a relative is absent

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
brief assessment tool (BAT)	brief geriatric assessment	all participants will have a brief assessment tool (BAT) for the identification of geriatric syndromes performed by their general practitioner. Afterwards, all participants will have a full geriatric assessment performed by geriatricians

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Sensibility and specificity	one year	performances of the brief assessment tool (BAT) will be measured by calculating sensibility and specificity for each of the geriatric syndromes: cognitive impairment; mood disorder; functional impairment; urinary incontinence; malnutrition; gait and balance impairment; osteoporosis; hearing impairment; visual impairment

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Departement of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine; 🇨🇭 Lausanne, VD, Switzerland