Performances of a Brief Assessment Tool for the Early Diagnosis of Geriatric Syndromes by Primary Care Physicians

Study AGE - Part 2 (Active Geriatric Evaluation for General Practitioner), Performances of a Brief Assessment Tool for the Early Diagnosis of Geriatric Syndromes by Primary Care Physicians

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01816087

Enrollment

Registered

2013-03-21

Start date

2013-05-31

Completion date

2014-11-30

Last updated

2018-01-09

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Conditions

Cognitive Impairment, Hearing Impairment, Malnutrition, Mood Disorders, Osteoporosis, Urinary Incontinence, Visual Impairment

Brief summary

The AGE (Active Geriatric Evaluation) aims to develop a brief assessment tool adapted to the primary care setting.

Detailed description

The AGE (Active Geriatric Evaluation) program is a collaborative project between a primary care institution and a specialised geriatric unit that aims to develop a brief assessment tool (BAT) adapted to the primary care setting. The objective of this study is to assess the performances of the BAT to identify major geriatric syndromes: cognitive impairment; mood disorder; functional impairment; urinary incontinence; malnutrition; gait and balance impairment; osteoporosis; hearing impairment; visual impairment. In order to achieve our objective, we plan to recruit 155 patients \> 70 years old in primary care settings for which primary care physicians will perform the BAT (composed of specific questions and clinical exams). At the end of the consultation, the primary care physician will fill a questionnaire where the absence/presence of syndromes will be recorded (according to the findings of the BAT). Each patient will be then seen a second time by expert geriatricians that will perform a full geriatric evaluation (90 minutes). This will allow to calculate the performances of the intervention (BAT) in terms of sensibility /specificity,...

Interventions

OTHERbrief geriatric assessment

All participants will be screened for geriatric syndromes using the brief assessment tool. Mix a simple questions and simple tests

Study design

Allocation

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

DIAGNOSTIC

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

70 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Age \> 70 years * follow-up by general practitioner * good understanding of french or presence of a translater * No previous or on-going geriatric consultation * Patient able to provide consent or a relative is present that can provide a consent instead

Exclusion criteria

* Age \< 70 years * No follow-up by general practitioner * Unable to understand French or absence of a translater * On-going geriatric follow-up * Patient unable to provide consent or a relative is absent

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Sensibility and specificity	one year	performances of the brief assessment tool (BAT) will be measured by calculating sensibility and specificity for each of the geriatric syndromes: cognitive impairment; mood disorder; functional impairment; urinary incontinence; malnutrition; gait and balance impairment; osteoporosis; hearing impairment; visual impairment

Countries

Switzerland

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 7, 2026