Care pathway for older adults presenting with non-specific complaints at the emergency department

etwerk Acute Zorg Brabant (NAZB)0 sites466 target enrollmentTBD

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

TBD

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

2 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sponsor

etwerk Acute Zorg Brabant (NAZB)

•In order to be eligible to participate in this study, a subject must meet all of the following criteria:
•\-Indicated for admission to hospital, and
•\-Age \= 70 years, and
•\-A non\-specific main complaint at presentation, such as:––
•1\. somatic problems:
•\- weakness: physical weakness in the body limiting the patient to perform daily
•\- not feeling well: patients expressing a passive behaviour due to not feeling well
•physically or mentally
•\- change in nutritional status: an abrupt decline of eating and/or drinking, compared
•to previous eating habits

•A potential subject who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study:
•\-Specific (main) complaint coupled to a diagnosis (pain, dyspnea, cough, localised weakness, swollen extremity, diarrhea, dysuria, bleeding, syncope, skin lesions, vertigo, palpitations, e.g.)
•\-Age \<70 years
•\-Patient refusing data collection or participation in the care pathway