Aged Residential Care Healthcare Utilization Study (ARCHUS) - a randomised cluster trial of multi-disciplinary clinical teams supporting nursing home staff to provide evidence-based care in order to reduce hospitalisations of residents.
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Chronic and acute conditions of older people living in residential care facilities that lead to acute admissions to hospital that are potentially avoidable, eg through earlier identification, better management, or up-skilling of facility staff.Public Health - Health service researchPublic Health - Health promotion/education
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12611000187943
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Auckland
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 36
Inclusion Criteria
The unit of selection, randomisation and intervention is the facility. Facilities providing residential aged care within the greater Auckland region are selected for the trial if they have higher than expected rates of hospitalisation (given number of beds, age of residents etc).
All residents living in the participating facilities during the intervention period will be included for the purposes of measuring outcomes.
Exclusion Criteria
None
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method