Expanded nursing competencies to improve person-centred care for nursing home residents with complex health needs (Expand-Care): exploratory cluster-randomized trial
Phase 1
- Conditions
- Complex care needs of residents in long-term care facilities
- Registration Number
- DRKS00028708
- Lead Sponsor
- niversität zu Lübeck, Institut für Sozialmedizin und Epidemiologie, Sektion für Forschung und Lehre in der Pflege
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 141
Inclusion Criteria
(High level of care dependency: German grade 3) OR ((medium level of care dependency: German grade 2) AND ((multimorbidity: three or more chronic illnesses) OR (at least one unplanned emergency service use: out-of-hour, emergency transport, emergency room or hospitalisation in the previous 8 weeks)))
Exclusion Criteria
(Life expectancy less than six months) OR (resident or legal guardian unable to understand study information in german language)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Hospital stays of nursing home residents (number, kind of admissions (elective versus unplanned), length of stay in days, reason for admission, initiation by whom, discharge diagnosis) will be copied from the digital resident record of nursing homes retrospectively at three time points (t0: Baseline and randomisation, t1: t0 +3 months, t2: t0 + 6 months).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method