Frail Elderly Clinical Trial
— FINEOfficial title:
Factors Predisposing to Inappropriate Transfers of Nursing Home Residents to Emergency Departments
Verified date | February 2024 |
Source | University Hospital, Toulouse |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Observational |
According to the data of our nursing homes (NH) research network (REHPA - Gérontopôle Toulouse, 345 nursing home in France), 13.5% of NH residents are hospitalized every 3 months or about 50% per year. These hospitalizations concern for half, transfers to emergency department (ED). Data from the literature and the PLEIAD study, conducted with 300 NH in France, confirm that intense flows between NH and ED. These studies also support the idea that these transfers to ED potentially expose some NH residents to iatrogenic complications, a risk of functional decline, an increased risk of mortality, and generate additional health costs. To transfer to ED residents who will benefit from emergency care and not to transfer to ED residents for whom this transfer generates a higher risk than the expected benefit is the goal to reach to guarantee the better quality of care for NH residents. Inappropriate transfer to ED may be defined by the absence of somatic emergency and / or palliative care known before transferring to ED and / or the presence of advance directives of non-hospitalization in the resident's file. This is a clinical situation that could be managed by other means that the transfer to ED without loss of opportunity for the patient. The primary objective of our study is to determine the factors predisposing NH residents to inappropriate transfer to ED. Our hypothesis is that inappropriate transfers to the ED of NH residents are conditioned by factors accessible to interventions such as the organization of the NH care system or by improving the management of some diseases in NH. Investigators also hypothesize that the cost of inappropriate transfers to the ED is considerable. Acknowledgement of costs generated by inappropriate transfers to ED would allow policy makers to make strategic decisions to improve care system.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 1040 |
Est. completion date | July 31, 2018 |
Est. primary completion date | July 31, 2018 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | N/A and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - to live in a Nursing Home - to be directly transferred from the NH to ED - to have not previously been included in FINE study Exclusion Criteria: - to live in structures other than Nursing Home (i.e. sheltered housing, seniors' residences, housing homes, retirement homes, long-term care units) - to live in the community - to be transferred to ED from elsewhere than the NH - to have previously been included in FINE study |
Country | Name | City | State |
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France | CH d'Albi | Albi | |
France | CH d'Auch | Auch | |
France | CH de Cahors | Cahors | |
France | CHI Castres Mazamet | Castres | |
France | CH Ariège Couserans | Foix | |
France | CH de Gourdon | Gourdon | |
France | CH Lannemezan | Lannemezan | |
France | CH Lavaur | Lavaur | |
France | CH de Lourdes | Lourdes | |
France | CH Castelsarrasin Moissac | Moissac | |
France | CH Montauban | Montauban | |
France | CH Rodez | Rodez | |
France | CH Saint Gaudens | Saint Gaudens | |
France | CHI Val d'Ariège | Saint Girons | |
France | Toulouse University Hospital (CHU de Toulouse) | Toulouse | |
France | CH de Bigorre | Vic en Bigorre |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University Hospital, Toulouse | Agence Régionale de la Santé - Midi Pyrénées, Ministry of Health, France |
France,
Bouzid W, Cantet C, Berard E, Mathieu C, Hermabessiere S, Houles M, Krams T, Qassemi S, Cambon A, McCambridge C, Tavassoli N, Rolland Y. Exploring Predictive Factors for Potentially Avoidable Emergency Department Transfers: Findings From the FINE Study. J — View Citation
Dubucs X, Balen F, Charpentier S, Lauque D, De Souto Barreto P, Tavassoli N, Houze-Cerfon CH, Rolland Y. Factors associated with Emergency Medical Dispatcher request and residents' inappropriate transfers from Nursing Homes to Emergency Department. Eur Ge — View Citation
Perrin A, Tavassoli N, Mathieu C, Hermabessiere S, Houles M, McCambridge C, Magre E, Fernandez S, Caquelard A, Charpentier S, Lauque D, Azema O, Bismuth S, Chicoulaa B, Oustric S, Costa N, Molinier L, Vellas B, Berard E, Rolland Y. Factors predisposing nursing home resident to inappropriate transfer to emergency department. The FINE study protocol. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2017 Jul 21;7:217-223. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2017.07.005. eCollection 2017 Sep. — View Citation
Rolland Y, Mathieu C, Tavassoli N, Berard E, Laffon de Mazieres C, Hermabessiere S, Houles M, Perrin A, Krams T, Qassemi S, Cambon A, Magre E, Cantet C, Charpentier S, Lauque D, Azema O, Chicoulaa B, Oustric S, McCambridge C, Gombault-Datzenko E, Molinier — View Citation
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Inappropriate transfer to ED of NH residents | Inappropriateness of the NH residents' transfers to ED : the inappropriateness of ED transfers will be determined by the opinion of a group of experts composed of geriatricians, emergency physicians, general practitioners and pharmacists. Inappropriate transfer to ED is defined by the absence of somatic emergency and / or palliative care known before decision to transfer and / or the presence of advance directives of non-hospitalization in the resident's file. This is a clinical situation that could be managed by other means that the transition to ED without loss of opportunity for the resident. To judge the inappropriateness of the transfer to ED, the group of experts will use a rating scale of usual emergencies. Individual and independent rating divergences will lead to a concerted evaluation of the clinical situation by the group. Analyse retro-prospectively by the group of experts. |
Baseline (T1 = inclusion at ED): retro-prospectively by the group of experts | |
Secondary | Cost of the NH resident transfer to ED | The cost of ED transfers (i.e. appropriate and inappropriate transfers) and the direct medical costs of residents 6 months before and 6 months after the first transfer will be calculated.This work will be lead in partnership with the Regional Direction of the Medical Service of the region and the medico-economic cell of the Medical Information Department of Toulouse University Hospital | 6 months before to 6 months after the transfer | |
Secondary | Avoidability of the NH resident transfer to ED | Potentially avoidable transfers to ED: When a transfer is considered appropriate it also can be considered as potentially avoidable if adequate preventive measures were implemented. The Ambulatory Care Sensitive Diagnosis usually used in the literature will be used to characterize the transfers as potentially avoidable. When a transfer is considered inappropriate it is always considered as potentially avoidable. Analyse retro-prospectively by the group of experts. | Baseline (T1 = inclusion at ED) | |
Secondary | NH resident's autonomy using Katz'ADL | - Residents' autonomy will be assessed using Katz'ADL at the NH before transfer (T0); at the end of the hospitalization if the resident is concerned (T2), and at the resident's return to ED (T3) | Change at different time points: T0, T2 (up to 12 days,if concerned) and T3 (7 days after return to NH) | |
Secondary | Analysis of Medical prescription, with a focus on psychotropic drug | - Medical prescriptions will be collected at inclusion (T1), at the end of the hospitalization if the resident is concerned (T2), and at the resident's return to ED (T3) | Change at different time points: T1 (baseline), T2 (up to 12 days,if concerned) and T3 (7 days after return to NH) |
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