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Establishment of comprehensive geriatric assessment based multidisciplinary team approach for hospitalized frail patients

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, NEC
Registration Number
KCT0006270
Lead Sponsor
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
1040
Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients 65 years of age or older who are hospitalized or scheduled to be hospitalized due to acute illness.
2. Patients categorized to Frail or Prefrail assessed by Korean version of the Fatigue, Resilience, Ambulation, Illness and Loss of Weight scale (K-FRAIL)
3. Patients having two or more of the following diseases (hypertension, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, chronic lung disease, arthritis, stroke, depression, chronic kidney disease, dementia)
4. Patient who are living at home for more than 3 months before hospitalisation.
5. (For substudy 3 only) Patients who subject to conventional primary chemotherapy because local treatment for curative purposes (such as surgery, concurrent chemoradiotherapy, radiation therapy, etc.) is ineligible (stage stage 3 or higher)
6. (For substudy 3 only) Patients confirmed histologically as cancer (gastric adenocarcinoma, colon adenocarcinoma, non-small cell and small cell lung cancer, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, biliary adenocarcinoma)

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients who planned hospitalisation in the specialised care unit, such as an intensive care unit and/or acute stroke ward, at the time of admission
2. Patients whose stage is terminal requiring hospice or palliative care.
3. Life expectancy is less than 6 months
4. Serious conditions that limit the participation in the research
5. (For substudy 3 only) Patients who planned to use oral targeted therapy as a palliative first-line chemotherapy
6. (For substudy 3 only)) Patients who recur within 6 months after completion of adjuvant chemotherapy.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional Study
Study Design
Not specified
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