Aged European Population Quality of Life in Infectious Diseases

• Conditions: Frailty; A49.9; A41; J22; Bacterial infection, unspecified; Other sepsis; Unspecified acute lower respiratory infection

• Registration Number: DRKS00029952
• Lead Sponsor: niklinik Köln - Zentrum für Innere Medizin

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-09-12
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 177

Inclusion Criteria

Case:
The study will include patients aged above 65 years of age presenting to emergency department, infectious disease, internal medicine or geriatric hospital wards with bacteraemia and/or acute respiratory infection
Informed consent form signed

Control:
The typical control patient will be of the same age (+/- 3 years, but aged above 65 years), same sex, without suspicion of infection and hospitalized during the past or upcoming month in the same centre.
Informed consent form signed

Exclusion Criteria

• Bed-ridden or terminally ill patient (based upon a threshold of ADL: =2 TBD, or Clinical Frailty scale: =8)
• Patients that refuse the 3- and 6-months follow-up phone call assessments
• Patients that will not be able to answer the 3- and 6-months follow-up phone call assessments via a nurse
• Patients with persistent hemiplegia (Stroke), blindness, full dementia.

Study & Design

• Study Type: observational
• Study Design: Not specified