NCT03697772

Continuity of Care and Use of Urgent Healthcare in Multimorbid Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Chronic disease management is a public health problem that faces monitoring difficulties related to complex care pathways. This study will analyze the use of unscheduled or urgent care according to the continuity of care in multimorbid patients

Detailed description

The prevalence of chronic diseases in the population is increasing significantly. It represents a new challenge for doctors and health authorities. However, patients often have at least two chronic diseases. These are referred to as "multimorbid" patients, whose continuity of care has not been well studied to date. This observational study evaluates the association between the continuity of care in multimorbid patients seen in general practice and their use of urgent healthcare, their quality of life and their burden of treatment.

Conditions

• Multimorbidity
• Continuity of Care

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-15
• Primary completion: 2021-12-15
• Completion: 2022-12-15
• First posted: 2018-10-05
• Last updated: 2023-05-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France