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Filter by:With the help of medical progress, life expectancy has increased in our country, resulting in an increase in the number of elderly people and especially so-called complex patients. These complex elderly patients present with a combination of poly pathology, locomotor disorders and loss of autonomy, which leads to increased risks of hospitalization, re-hospitalization or difficulty in remaining at home. These risks could be reduced by early adapted care specific to this type of patient. To do this, it is necessary to identify these complex elderly patients as early as possible in their care pathway. Screening complex elderly patients in the emergency department would require trained and educated staff, or the use of a simple, rapid and reliable diagnostic scale. The purpose of this study is to compare two scales for the screening of complex elderly patients, whose use is adapted to the Hospital Emergency Department environment. This study assess the diagnostic performance of the ISAR and SoCoLoc scales for complex elderly patients.
This study is conducted to evaluate the clinical performance of Zirconomer Improved GI restoration compared to Conventional viscous GI restoration in geriatric patients with Posterior carious lesions in class I or II cavities
In France, for general practitioners, the Emergency Hospitality Services (UAS) are the fastest and usual way to respond to the complexity of managing elderly polypathological patients. In 2013, the Regional Health Agencies proposed the creation of direct telephone assistance managed by geriatric doctors (geriatric hotlines) to promote interactions city - hospital. The aim of these hotlines is to improve the care pathways and health status of seniors. The objective of this study is to describe the care trajectories and health status of subjects over 75 years of age hospitalized in a short-term geriatric stay on the guidance of a Geriatric Hotline. The study will take place over 24 months and in 7 French University Hospitallers Centres. The study will include all patients aged 75 and over, living at home or in an institution, who are hospitalized in a short-term geriatric ward on the guidance of a Hotline. The results will show whether a management by the geriatric hotline is the most suitable for seniors, with an average length of stay probably shorter.
Exercise is an effective treatment modality for many chronic conditions. The effectiveness of prescribed exercise can be limited by adherence to exercise programmes. Older people are more likely to have a long term, or multiple long term conditions, for which exercise is a treatment option. The investigators know that exercise engagement after discharge from hospital or physiotherapy is poor in older people. In addition to this there may be specific factors that affect exercise adherence in older people. Exercise adherence interventions can be viewed as behaviour change interventions, as their aim is to change the behaviour of the patient. However many interventions lack theoretical underpinning. This study will test the feasibility of a brief behavioural assessment underpinned by the COM-B behaviour change model, in addition to targeted adherence approaches based on that assessment. Participants will be randomised between usual care, and the behavioural assessment intervention arm. Adherence to the exercise programme given in physiotherapy will be recorded in both groups at 6 and 12 weeks. Feasibility of recruitment, retention and acceptability of the intervention will also be assessed. A subsection of participants will also take part in a qualitative interview, this will explore participants experience of the trial intervention, in addition to the participants experience of attempting to adhere to an exercise programme.
The geriatric population is exposed to poly-medication. Furthermore, old people have important pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic changes that expose to much drug iatrogenic. Adverse drug effects are a great cause for hospitalization that is why the knowledge of the complete list of medications taken by the patient is necessary. The poly-medication in elderly can lead to extremely serious clinical consequences and significant costs. Reference documents specific to geriatrics guide the doctor in therapeutic choices. On the one hand, the Laroche's criteria lists all PIM of the French pharmacopoeia in elderly. On the other hand, STOPP/START criteria are a tool for detect PIM listing inappropriate drugs and criteria of potentially drug omissions. This has been validated in French language. It is important that any changes proposed by the geriatrician resulting in just prescription is sustainable beyond the hospitalization to prevent the recurrence of adverse effects. Effective community-hospital coordination is essential. Medication reconciliation is defined as the formal process of checking the complete, accurate list of a patient's previous medication — including drug name, dosage, frequency, and route — and comparing it with the prescription after a transition of care (on admission, after transfer to another medical unit, and/or at discharge). Two groups of patients will be created, one for which medication reconciliation at discharge will be practiced and the other a similar process but not standardized. Four to eight weeks after the discharge, the member of the pharmacy team is calling the usual community pharmacy to get the first non-hospital prescription by fax and compare the number of PIM with the prescription before hospitalization.
Pancreatic extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (P-ESWL) is recommended as the first-line treatment for pancreatic stones. However, how well P-ESWL performs in geriatric patients remains unclear. The investigators aimed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of P-ESWL for geriatric patients with chronic pancreatitis.
Hip fracture is the second indication of surgical management elderly patients. It remains linked with a one-year mortality of 20%-25% according to diiferent governmental agencies, and the incidence reaches 30% for those over 80 years old. The factors recognized and found to be most correlated with the survival / mortality ratio of patients are age, sex, intervention time, and prior health status. The aim of a preoperative clinical evaluation is to estimate the benefit-risk balance of different clinical and technical managements and to prepare the postoperative patient outcome. During the last decade, management of hip fracture has improved mainly due to the different recommendations for a multidisciplinary management of perioperative procedures. However, none of them have yet highlighted FOCUS echocardiography as a "routine" examination of the preoperative evaluation as in most noncardiac surgeries. The objective of this study is to evaluate the preoperative management of these patients: Clinical and biological evaluation, and to analyze the place that would have the FOCUS preoperative echocardiography in the choice of the anesthesia technique resulting from the patient evaluation.That study in a pre-requisite study to evaluate the incidence of FOCUS echocardiography realized by anesthesiologists in the preoperative period in order to define patient's outcome and anesthetic management.
Peripheral venipuncture is a common procedure in geriatrics. This procedure due to altered cutaneous alteration and venous capital associated with age poses problems of comfort and quality of life of elderly patients hospitalized. There is little data from the literature that highlights the difficulties of venipuncture in the context of old age. New venous visualization technologies by infrared spectroscopy (NIR) such as VeinViewer® Vision (VVV) have been developed to guide the placement of a peripheral venous (VVP) or venipuncture (PV) route.
This study will look at the impact of a self-directed walking program on post-chemotherapy survivors experiencing fatigue. It is hypothesized that the walking program will help lessen fatigue.