NCT02483065

Impact of Hospital Admission on Patients With Dementia

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 413 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Galdakao-Usansolo · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

People with dementia have complex medical, social, and psychological needs and can be exacerbated by physical illness and the complex relationships between health care systems, patients and their families or caregivers. They are a vulnerable and fragile population that differs significantly from the population without dementia. Therefore, the investigators propose the following objectives: 1. To describe the evolution of dementia patients admitted during the study period in two hospitals in the Basque Health Service-Osakidetza and complications associated with such admissions. 2. To compare with a control group (matched by type of pathology, age and sex and adjusting for other clinical variables (severity of dementia ...) the patient's condition before and after admission, in terms of quality of life, dependency, instrumental activities of daily living and severity of dementia. 3. To compare the length of stay, complications, mortality rate, the degree of dependency and quality of life of patients with dementia compared to those without dementia, matched by groups of pathologies, gender and age.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	mortality at discharge and 3-months after the admission in patients with and without dementia	Patients diagnosed of dementia who ingresed the hospital were informed of the goals of the study and invited to voluntarily participate. In order to take part in the study, patients were required to provide informed consent. All participants were first screened with the Alzheimer's Disease Test. A diagnosis of dementia was generated by an independent clinician experienced in old age psychiatry using a structured clinical assessment based on operationalized DSM-IV criteria. Clinical data were gathered from hospital notes. Information on sociodemographic data, premorbid basic and instrumental activities of daily living, quality of life and burden of the caregiver was gathered from carers and review of hospital notes. In both cohorts, participants were telephoned 3 months after hospital admission to respond the follow-up questionnaires. Patients who decided not to answer them were considered lost to follow-up. All information was kept confidential.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2015-01-01
• First posted: 2015-06-26
• Last updated: 2015-06-26