NCT02816177

Telemedicine and Nursing Home

Impact of Telemedicine on Avoiding Emergency Hospital Admissions and Hospitalization for Nursing Home Residents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 428 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Limoges · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Telemedicine-based care provides remote health and social care to maintain people's autonomy and increase their quality of life. The rapidly aging population has come with a significant increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases and their effects, and thus the need for increased care and welfare. This solutions give a new opportunity for diagnosis, treatment, education, and rehabilitation, and make it possible to monitor patients with a number of chronic diseases. It also reduces socioeconomic disparity with regard to access to care and gives equal chances to patients from urban and rural areas. This a randomized trial of telemedicine versus usual care alone to reduce hospitalization and emergency hospital admissions for Nursing Home Residents . After an initial assessment , each participant is monitored by teleconsultation on six occasions over 12 months. Patients with usual care have an initial and a 12 months assessments.

Conditions

• Elderly
• Multimorbidity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Telemedicine
OTHER	Usual Care

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-05
• Primary completion: 2018-01-18
• Completion: 2019-06-01
• First posted: 2016-06-28
• Last updated: 2025-07-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France