Trauma Medical Home for Older Injured Patients

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Injuries

In brief

This proposal aims to conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of a 6-month collaborative care intervention in improving the functional and psychological recovery of 430 injury survivors 50 and older. The trial has the following specific aims: 1) Evaluate the ability of the TMH intervention to improve the physical recovery of older injury survivors; and 2) Evaluate the ability of the TMH intervention to improve the psychological recovery of older injury survivors; and 3) Evaluate the ability of the TMH intervention to reduce healthcare costs of older injury survivors and evaluate the cost of effectiveness of the TMH intervention.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03108820

Run by

Indiana University

People needed

430

Starts

2017-10-01

Expected to finish

2023-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2024-06-24

Who can join

Age: 50 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• English-speaking adult age 50 years and older;
• admitted to Indiana University Health - Methodist or Eskenazi Health hospitals;
• able to provide consent or has a legally authorized representative to provide consent;
• access to a telephone;
• and an injury severity score (ISS) of 9 or greater.

You may not qualify if…

• have a self-reported diagnosis of cancer with short life expectancy;
• have a history of dementing illnesses and other neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, or vascular dementia;
• have a significant traumatic brain injury (defined as the presence of any intracranial blood on Computed Tomography scan of the head or best Glasgow Coma Scale Score of less than 13 at the time of study enrollment);
• have any spinal cord injury with persistent neurologic deficit at the time of study enrollment;
• are pregnant women (assessed by a urine pregnancy test);
• have a primary residence outside the state of Indiana;
• are incarcerated at the time of study enrollment;
• have an acute stroke upon admission or develop a stroke as a new event during the course of hospitalization;
• unable to complete study questionnaire due to severe hearing loss;
• recent history of alcohol or substance abuse;
• discharged to a permanent care facility;
• admitted with a burn affecting >10% total body surface area.

Where it is running

• Eskenazi Hospital — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
• IU Health Methodist Hospital — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
• St. Vincent Indianapolis — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
• UW Health - University Hospital — Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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