Family conferences and shared prioritization to improve patient safety in the frail elderly
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- R54Senility
- Registration Number
- DRKS00015055
- Lead Sponsor
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Medizinische Fakultät
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 623
Inclusion Criteria
1) Positive screening of frailty in a short screening questionnaire answered by the GP utilising the CSHA Clinical Frailty Scale. Patients at the levels 5-7 are eligible for participating in this trial.
2) Regular intake of five or more different drugs per day (Polypharmacy)
3) Care dependency (Pflegestufe / level if care 1 or higher) or comparable status
4) Either nursing care at home by informal family carers alone or supported by professional carers.
Exclusion Criteria
1) moderate or high dementia
2) not under legal guardianship
3) reduced life expectancy of less than 6 months (palliative care)
4) living in a nursing home
5) no fluent German language skills of patients and family carer OR no availability of a translator
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method