Dementia Clinical Trial
— TEAMOfficial title:
Evaluation of a Medical and Mental Health Unit Compared With Standard Care for Older People Whose Emergency Admission to an Acute General Hospital is Complicated by Concurrent 'Confusion'.
This research is an evaluation of the MMHU compared to standard care. Patients who are over
65 and 'confused' at admission will be randomly allocated to the MMHU or standard care. The
MMHU does not have capacity for all confused older patients admitted to NUH, and random
allocation is similar to what happens in practice currently. For this study, 480 of these
patients will be recruited, together with a carer (240 from the MMHU, 240 from standard care
wards). The investigators will collect baseline information about the patient participant's
physical and mental health and disability.
The investigators will count the total days spent at home and measure patient participants'
health status after 3 months, and use of resources over six months. Carer strain and quality
of life will be measured at baseline and follow up.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 600 |
Est. completion date | June 2012 |
Est. primary completion date | June 2012 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | Both |
Age group | 65 Years to 120 Years |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Patient participants will be over 65, admitted as an emergency to Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, with an established or possible physical health problem and concurrent 'confusion', clinically eligible for management on the Medical and Mental Health Unit. - Carer participants will be a family member or carer, in regular contact with the patient participant, to serve both as an informant, and, and to study carer health and outcomes. - Confusion will be loosely defined, including working diagnoses of: - Delirium - Dementia - Dementia with a suspicion of super-added delirium Exclusion Criteria: - Those who require sectioning under the Mental Health Act - Those with intoxication to illicit drugs or alcohol, or the immediate care of patients with overdose - Those with a primary psychiatric problem in the absence of suspected significant physical or functional co-morbidity. - Those who are severely medically ill, requiring intensive monitoring or therapy (critical care), or sub-specialist medical intervention (e.g. severe acute GI bleeding, respiratory support). - Those with an overriding clinical need for management in another service e.g. stroke, orthogeriatric, renal, oncology. - Those with personality disorder, depression or anxiety as the primary psychiatric diagnosis. - Those who are registered with a non - Nottingham Primary Care Trust General Practitioner. - Those who do not speak English and have no family translator. |
Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Country | Name | City | State |
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United Kingdom | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | Nottingham |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University of Nottingham | National Institute for Health Research, United Kingdom, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust |
United Kingdom,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Number of days at home in the 3 months after randomisation | The primary outcome will be number of days spent at home in the three months following recruitment (or remaining in a care home for those previously resident at recruitment). This encompasses mortality, discharge, length of hospital stay, and ability to sustain discharge and avoid readmission. 'Days at home' will be calculated as 90 days minus the nuimber of days spent dead, in residential intermediate care units, in hospital, in respite care or in a new care home placement at a higher level of dependency. | 3 months | No |
Secondary | Quality of life | Dementia quality of life (Demqol, patient and proxy) and generic quality of life (Euroqol EQ5D). | 3 months | No |
Secondary | Behavioural disability | Neuropsychiatric inventory. | 3 months | No |
Secondary | Mortality | 3 month | No | |
Secondary | Personal activities of daily living | Barthel ADL Index | 3 months | No |
Secondary | Participant / generic disability | short London Handicap Scale | 3 months | No |
Secondary | Cognition | MMSE, in particular to detect recovery of delirium | 3 months | No |
Secondary | Carer satisfaction with hospital care | Satisfaction with care received questionnaire | 1-3 weeks post discharge from index admission | No |
Secondary | Carer strain and general health | Carer strain index and carer general health questionnaire GHQ-12. | 3 months | No |
Secondary | Service Outcomes | Days in each type of ward. Hospital re-admissions, and total hospital length of stay. New institutionalisation (or moving to a higher level of dependency for those in a care home) Days in a care home (including respite care) GP visits, and use of other primary care contacts (district nurse, community matron, practice nurse) Hospital appointments Attendances at physical and mental health day hospitals Contact with community mental health teams (including community psychiatric nursing) Use of ambulance service Use of social service home care and day centres. | 3 months | No |
Secondary | Quality of care and patient experience on the ward | Quality of care and patient experience will be measured using Dementia Care Mapping on both the MMHU and standard care. Dementia Care Mapping provides a structured record of activity levels, mood and engagement of participants and the quality of staff interactions over a 4-6 hour period. | During hospital stay. | No |
Secondary | Health and social care costs | Service outcomes will be costed using specific costs where available or standard reference costs otherwise. | 3 months | No |
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