NCT01551121

Assessment of an Automated Telesurveillance System on the Incidence of Serious Falls in Nursing Homes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 216 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Limoges · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

3 Nursing homes in the Limousin region will be equipped with the automated telesurveillance system. Patient will be selected by general practitioner and randomized into two groups after informed consent. One group will have cameras installed and the other will not and will act as a comparison group. Patient will be assessed three times during the study, at inclusion, 6 months and 12 months. Each assessment is composed of a standard geriatric assessment, a fall questionnaire, an autonomy scale (SMAF scale) and a quality of life questionnaire (EQ5D). Every falls will be considered as adverse events and will therefore be listed along the study and characterized in types and number.

Conditions

• The Elderly of 75 Years and Living in Nursing Homes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	It will then allow them to intervene at the right time and the right place	The server works 24h/24 and 7d/7 and will send an alert to the care personnel via their computers and personal pagers if it detects an anomaly. Anomaly could be falls, high risk behavior (patient standing up on its bed), abnormal length of stay in the bathroom, prolonged inertia. It will then allow them to intervene at the right time and the right place. Geriatrician can also review images in order to determine the cause of the incident and then act on each patient prevention and care strategy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-03-01
• Primary completion: 2017-03-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2012-03-12
• Last updated: 2019-01-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France