Telemedicine-based, Multidisciplinary-team, Intervention to Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalizations

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Dementia Alzheimers, Disruptive Behavior

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03378245

Run by

Richard Ronan Murphy

People needed

16

Starts

2013-09-01

Expected to finish

2020-07-31

Last updated by the study team

2021-08-16

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Dementia Care facility resident Problematic behavioral problems

You may not qualify if…

• None

Where it is running

• University of Kentucky — Lexington, Kentucky, United States

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