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(MIGA) Mini Geriatric Assessment To Replace the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified March 2011 by Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
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Information provided by:
Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT01318759
First received: March 17, 2011
Last updated: NA
Last verified: March 2011
History: No changes posted
  Purpose

This is a comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) currently used to evaluate elderly people in order to be able to assess their multiple organ pathology, cognitive, functional and social problems. This CGA is a very time consuming tool although a powerful one.

The investigators want to present a new assessment test witch is short and comprehensive tool witch will be checked in ambulatory and in-hospital geriatric patients.


Condition
Geriatric Disorder

Study Type: Observational
Study Design: Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
Official Title: (MIGA) Mini Geriatric Assessment as Compared to the Current CGA

Further study details as provided by Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center:

Estimated Enrollment: 400
Study Start Date: March 2011
Estimated Study Completion Date: March 2014
Estimated Primary Completion Date: March 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Detailed Description:

MIGA test (Mini Geriatric Assessment) includes the following parameters Walking outdoors, Transfer, ADL-Dressing, Washing, Continence, Vision, Hearing, Pain, Sleeping, Weight loss, Get-Up-And-Go test, Short term memory, Clock drawing test, Falls, functional reach of hands, Depression, Behavioral problems, social support, Admissions, Polypharmacy,

All patients will be assessed by the traditional CGA and by the new MIGA test. Time consuming of the two tests will be measured and compared.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   65 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Sampling Method:   Probability Sample
Study Population

people aged over 65

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Elderly people age 65 and above,
  • In patients hospitalized in the geriatric department
  • Out patients -from the geriatric out patient clinic
  • Elderly patients visiting in the emergency room

Exclusion criteria:

  • People under 65 years old
  • Critically ill patients ( acute infection, acute myocardial infarction, hypoxia, hemodynamic instability)
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01318759

Locations
Israel
Geriatric department , Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Recruiting
Tel Aviv, Israel, 64239
Contact: Oksana Borodin, MD     972-527-360460     oksana.borodin@gmail.com    
Contact: Yaffa Lerman, MD     972-3-6974074     Yaffale@tasmc.health.gov.il    
Sponsors and Collaborators
Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Investigators
Study Director: Yaffa Lerman, MD Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Principal Investigator: Oksana Borodin, MD Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
  More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party: Yaffa Lerman MD, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01318759     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: 0047-11-tav
Study First Received: March 17, 2011
Last Updated: March 17, 2011
Health Authority: Israel: Ethics Commission

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 23, 2013