Residents of a long-term care home for the elderly
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Implementation of coordinated medical care: establishment of medical teams, joint electronic patient records, joint training courses and audits, joint ward rounds, annual meetings of all part
Sponsors
Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Baden-Württemberg (KVBW)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Residents of a long-term care home in the intervention counties, who are insured with a statutory health insurance. Nurses and medical doctors from the participating long-term care homes.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Residents of the long-term care homes: Dementia (as an exclusion criterion for participation in the questionnaire survey and the focus group, but not as exclusion criterion for the trial) as well as a residence time in the long-term care home below the minimum time of 3 months. Nurses and physicians: no exclusion criteria
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Costs of health care (cost-related routine data of the statutory health insurance): pre-post measurement. Quality of care experienced by the resident (questionnaire for the residents, group interviews with residents): data collection once in the intervention period. Usefulness assessed by the practitioner (questionnaire for the practitioner, group interviews with practitioners, audits): pre-post measurement. Data for the intervention group are included from the period: 1.1.2017-30.9.2019. Data for the control group are included from the period: 1.1.2017-30.9.2019 | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Quality of life and state of health experienced by the resident (questionnaire for the residents, group interviews with residents): data collection once in the intervention period. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactRüdiger Kucher
Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Baden-Württemberg Geschäftsbereich Vertragswesen
Outcome results
None listed