Telemedicine-based, Multidisciplinary-team, Intervention to Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalizations and Healthcare Costs in Appalachia KY Skilled Nursing Facilities
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 16
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change in the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) total score
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of telemedicine-based intervention at urban and rural skilled nursing facilities to recommend multidisciplinary dementia care to residents with dementia who are at risk for unnecessary hospitalization due behavioral or neuropsychiatric symptoms and/or complications as well as caregivers and facility staff. The multidisciplinary team is comprised of trained behavioral neurologists, social workers, advanced practice providers, primary medical team and nurse coordinators.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Dementia Care facility resident Problematic behavioral problems
排除标准
- 未提供
研究组 & 干预措施
Telemedicine Intervention
Multidisciplinary telemedicine education of staff and providers on best practices for behavioral modification as well as education on best practices for pharmacologic therapies.
干预措施: Behavioral modification and education on pharmacologic treatments. (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Change in the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) total score
时间窗: 6 months
The NPI assesses 10 behavioral symptom domains, scoring is based on symptom frequency and severity. The total NPI score sums the products of frequency and severity scores for each domain. Higher scores indicate more behavioral disturbance
次要结局
- Change in the Resource Utilization in Dementia - Formal Care (RUD-FOCA)(6 months)
- Change in Quality of Life in Alzheimers Dementia (QoL-AD)(6 months.)
研究者
Richard Ronan Murphy
Assistant Professor of Neurology
University of Kentucky