Guided Care: Integrating High Tech and High Touch

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Chronic Disease

In brief

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of a Guided Care nurse on the quality of the health and well-being of the frail elderly. A specially trained registered nurse will work closely with 1-3 primary care physicians to provide the most complex older patients (and their unpaid caregivers) with health care that is comprehensive, coordinated, patient-centered, and proactive. The study will evaluate the effects of Guided Care on: * older persons' physical and mental health, health services utilization, quality of care, self-efficacy, and satisfaction with care; * older persons' unpaid caregivers' burden; and * primary care physicians' satisfaction with their care of chronically ill patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00121940

Run by

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

People needed

904

Starts

2006-02-01

Expected to finish

2009-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-04-20

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Over 65
• Insured by KPMAG, USFHP/TRICARE, or Medicare FFS
• High likelihood of use of services in the coming year based on predictive modeling using current year's health care expenses

You may not qualify if…

• Moving out of area
• Currently assigned to case manager/in case management program
• Cognitive impairment and no legal representative

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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