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Elderly Clinical Trial

Official title:
Impact of Telemedicine on Avoiding Emergency Hospital Admissions and Hospitalization for Nursing Home Residents

Clinical Trial Summary

Telemedicine-based care provides remote health and social care to maintain people's autonomy and increase their quality of life. The rapidly aging population has come with a significant increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases and their effects, and thus the need for increased care and welfare.

This solutions give a new opportunity for diagnosis, treatment, education, and rehabilitation, and make it possible to monitor patients with a number of chronic diseases. It also reduces socioeconomic disparity with regard to access to care and gives equal chances to patients from urban and rural areas.

This a randomized trial of telemedicine versus usual care alone to reduce hospitalization and emergency hospital admissions for Nursing Home Residents .

After an initial assessment , each participant is monitored by teleconsultation on six occasions over 12 months. Patients with usual care have an initial and a 12 months assessments.

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Clinical Trial Details
NCT number NCT02816177
Study type Interventional
Source University Hospital, Limoges
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date July 5, 2016
Completion date June 2019
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