Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03378245
Telemedicine-based, Multidisciplinary-team, Intervention to Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalizations
Telemedicine-based, Multidisciplinary-team, Intervention to Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalizations and Healthcare Costs in Appalachia KY Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 16 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Richard Ronan Murphy · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of telemedicine-based intervention at urban and rural skilled nursing facilities to recommend multidisciplinary dementia care to residents with dementia who are at risk for unnecessary hospitalization due behavioral or neuropsychiatric symptoms and/or complications as well as caregivers and facility staff. The multidisciplinary team is comprised of trained behavioral neurologists, social workers, advanced practice providers, primary medical team and nurse coordinators.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Behavioral modification and education on pharmacologic treatments. | Education and counseling of care-giving staff on behavioral modification strategies, as well as education about current standard of care best practices for pharmacologic interventions. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2013-09-01
- Primary completion
- 2020-07-31
- Completion
- 2020-07-31
- First posted
- 2017-12-19
- Last updated
- 2021-08-16
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03378245. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.