Screening of the Frailty Degree in the Emergency Department Short Stay Unit

Systematic Detection and Screening of the Frailty Degree in Patients Admitted to the Emergency Department Short Stay Unit

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04812834

Enrollment

300

Registered

2021-03-24

Start date

2021-02-24

Completion date

2023-02-24

Last updated

2021-04-01

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Conditions

Frail Elderly Syndrome

Keywords

elderly, frailty, short stay unit

Brief summary

Screen all those\> 65 years of age admitted to the Short Stay Unit for frailty, and detect those who are potentially fragile.

Detailed description

Demographic change has led to a change in the profile and age of hospitalized patients, an increase in age and in patients with multiple chronic diseases and more complex health needs is observed. Frailty is known to impact patient health outcomes with medical and surgical procedures. Thus, frailty is correlated with a greater presence of delirium, longer stays, a greater requirement for complementary examinations, a greater presence of mortality and other post-surgical complications, more dependence, more risks derived from hospitalization, and a greater need for convalescence after discharge.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

65 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

* Patients over 65 years of age admitted to the Short Stay Unit

Exclusion criteria

* Patients under 65 years of age admitted to the Short Stay Unit

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
To know the degree of frailty with the frail VIG index in patients admitted to the short-stay unit	12 months	The Frail Vig index (VIG is the spanish/catalan abbreviation for Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment) is a new, more concise Frailty index for rapid geriatric assessment, which contains 22 simple questions that assess 25 different deficits. The Frail VIG index score assesses the degree of frailty as a continuous variable. The value of the Frail VIG index is between 0 (absence of frailty) and 0.7 (severe frailty)

Countries

Spain

Outcome results