NCT01318759

(MIGA) Mini Geriatric Assessment To Replace the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

(MIGA) Mini Geriatric Assessment as Compared to the Current CGA

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 400 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) currently used to evaluate elderly people in order to be able to assess their multiple organ pathology, cognitive, functional and social problems. This CGA is a very time consuming tool although a powerful one. The investigators want to present a new assessment test witch is short and comprehensive tool witch will be checked in ambulatory and in-hospital geriatric patients.

Detailed description

MIGA test (Mini Geriatric Assessment) includes the following parameters Walking outdoors, Transfer, ADL-Dressing, Washing, Continence, Vision, Hearing, Pain, Sleeping, Weight loss, Get-Up-And-Go test, Short term memory, Clock drawing test, Falls, functional reach of hands, Depression, Behavioral problems, social support, Admissions, Polypharmacy, All patients will be assessed by the traditional CGA and by the new MIGA test. Time consuming of the two tests will be measured and compared.

Conditions

• Geriatric Disorder

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-03-01
• Primary completion: 2014-03-01
• Completion: 2014-03-01
• First posted: 2011-03-18
• Last updated: 2011-03-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel