Geriatric
Conditions
Brief summary
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.
Detailed description
The assumption of the study is that at least one of these two scales (ISAR or SoCoLoc) is adapted to the constraints of hospital emergencies and that it presents good performances for the screening of elderly patients in complex medico-social situations (sensitivity ≥ 90% and specificity ≥ 50%).
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Centre Hospitalier Annecy Genevois
Study design
Observational model
CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
75 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients over 75 years of age * Patient presenting to the Emergency Department of the Annecy Genevois hospital, whatever the reason for consultation, from Monday to Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. * Patient informed of the study and not opposed to participation
Exclusion criteria
* Patients under guardianship or curatorship * Patients under the safeguard of justice * Patient presenting for a life-threatening emergency * Patient unable to answer the questions on the scales * Patient does not speak French * Patients who have already been included in the study: any patient already included in the study and making another trip to the emergency department cannot be included a second time.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Overall diagnostic performance of the two scales comparing the AUC | Up to emergency admission | The overall diagnostic performance of each scale will be measured using the area under the ROC curve (sensitivity vs. 1-specificity). The performance of the two scales will be measured and compared using a parametric or non-parametric Z-test for matched data according to the number of events observed, i.e. the number of complex patients. A ROC curve will be performed in order to determine the best positivity threshold of each scale. Patients will be classified as complex or non-complex by the blind adjudication committee of the results of the two scales. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sensitivity and specificity of the two scales | Up to emergency admission | Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, positive likelihood ratio and negative likelihood ratio of SoCoLoc and ISAR |
| Number and proportion of complex elderly patients | Up to emergency admission | Number and proportion of complex elderly patients, as well as its 95% confidence interval, evaluated according to the definition accepted by the adjudication committee. |
| Patient characteristics description | Up to emergency admission | Description of patient characteristics |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed