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Patient Outcomes After Hospitalization in Acute Geriatric Unit

Completed
Conditions
Geriatric Disorder
Registration Number
NCT02949635
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Lille
Brief Summary

Three events can be considered of major importance for patients after a hospitalization in an AGU: death, hospital readmission, and institutionalization. Current published data do not allow the clinician to simultaneously estimate the risk of hospital readmission, institutionalization and death of an older patient according to his/her characteristics and various complications that occurred during the hospitalization. However, clinicians often need to estimate these risks at hospital discharge to adapt their therapeutic choices, their proposals post-hospital care, and provide reliable and fair information to the patient and his relatives.

Estimating simultaneously the hazard for each of these three events can be complex. Indeed, a death event hinder the observation of re-hospitalization or institutionalization if death occurs before these events. The death should be considered a competing risk in these analyzes. Hospital readmission may modify the risk of death or institutionalization and should be considered as an intermediate factor for these event. This complexity cannot be accounted with classical statistical models, like logistic regression models.

The purpose of this study is to use more appropriate statistical models (multi-state models) to better estimate simultaneously the risks of hospital readmission, institutionalization, and death of a patient given after hospitalization in AGU, and to show that accuracy of these estimations can be improved by taking into account complications that occurred during the stay in AGU.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
3532
Inclusion Criteria
  • Age 75 years and over
  • Hospitalized in Acute Geriatric Unit
  • Covered by a health insurance
Exclusion Criteria
  • Refusal to participate to the study, as expressed by the patient or his/her next of kin

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Number of death after discharge3 months
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Number of death after discharge12 months
Number of rehospitalization after dischargeat 3 and 12 months
Number of institutionalization (NH admissions)at 12 months
Number of nosocomial infectious diseases during the index hospitalization60 days
Duration of clostridium difficile infection60 days
Length of stay of the index hospitalization60 days

The exact duration for this outcome will correspond to the duration of the index hospitalization

Trial Locations

Locations (6)

CHU Caen

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Caen, France

CH Beauvais

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Beauvais, France

Hôpital Cardiologique, CHRU

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Lille, France

GHICL, Saint Philibert

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Lomme, France

CH Saint Quentin

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Saint quentin, France

CHU d'Amiens

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Amiens, France

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