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Frail Elderly PeopleSAFES CohortNCT02834728

Frail Elderly Subjects - Evaluation and Follow-Up

An observational study of Frail Elderly People, run by CHU de Reims at 1 site in France.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
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Trial summary

This was a prospective multicenter cohort study of elderly people admitted to medical wards via emergency departments. Subjects were followed up to 36 months. It aimed to study the inhospital pathways and adverse geriatric outcomes. In all, 1306 subjects were included : 85+/-5 years, and mainly women (65%). Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 75 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Frail Elderly People
What is being tested?
telephone interview
How many people
1,306 participants
Where
1 siteFrance
Study dates
Mar 2001to Dec 2005
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 75 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Older adult

Study population: Patients were selected randomly from the emergency department. Subjects were to 75 years or over, and admitted to a medical ward after emargency department stay. Those who were admitted to surgery or intensive care units were excluded from the study

Who may be able to join

  • Age of 75 years or over
  • Admitted to medical ward via emergency department
  • Consent to participate

Who cannot join

  • Not hospitalised after emergency department stay
  • Admitted to surgery or intensive car unit
  • Died before signing informed consent form

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

France1 site

  • Chu Reims

    France, Reims, 51092

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About this study

Official title: Frail Elderly Subjects: Inhospital Pathways and Adverse Outcome After Hospitalisation Via Emergency Department

This was a prospective multicenter cohort study of elderly people admitted to medical wards via emergency departments. Subjects were followed up to 36 months. It aimed to study the inhospital pathways and adverse geriatric outcomes. In all, 1306 subjects were included : 85+/-5 years, and mainly women (65%).

Read the detailed description

The SAFES cohort was formed within a National Research Program (funded by the French Ministry of health) into the recruitment of emergency units in nine teaching hospitals. All nine centres had a geriatric ward. The inclusion of subjects ran from March 1st 2001 to January 17th 2002. To be eligible, patients were to be 75 or over, to have been hospitalised in a medical ward in the same hospital as the emergency unit to which they were initially admitted. Subjects were not eligible if hospitalisation was into intensive care or surgery, or if admission did not occur after admission to the emergency unit. Every day in each centre, patients admitted to the emergency unit were registered. From the list thus obtained, patients were selected by random draw stratified at two levels: in each week, 5 days were selected randomly, and for each of these days, two patients were chosen randomly. Next, each patient was visited by a specialist in geriatrics familiar with the survey procedures. In the course of this interview, patients were informed about the study, prior to signing the consent form. If the clinical status and/or the cognitive status of the patient did not enable informed consent, the interviewer referred to the subject's representative. Follow-up was by telephone interview after the 1st, 8th and 21st month and by face-to-face interviews after the 5th, 12th, 18th, and 24th month following the initial hospitalisation. Several outcome have been studied.

Being tested
telephone interview

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • telephone interviewBehavioural

Study groups in NCT02834728
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Frail elderly peopleA group of elderly people hospitalised in medical wards via emergency department
Receives: Behavioral: telephone interview

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Mortality

    Measured: up to 36 months

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted15 Jul 2016 (estimated)
  2. Study startMar 2001
  3. Primary completionDec 2005
  4. Study completionDec 2005

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
1,306 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02834728
Sponsor's protocol ID
44N98
Acronym
SAFES Cohort
Status last verified
Jul 2016
First submitted
13 Jul 2016
Last updated
25 Jul 2016
Results posted
No

Publications

  • Tardieu E, Mahmoudi R, Novella JL, Oubaya N, Blanchard F, Jolly D, Drame M. [External validation of the short emergency geriatric assessment (SEGA) instrument on the SAFES cohort]. Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil. 2016 Mar;14(1):49-55. doi: 10.1684/pnv.2016.0592. French.

    PubMed 27005336

  • de Boissieu P, Mahmoudi R, Hentzien M, Toquet S, Novella JL, Blanchard F, Jolly D, Drame M. Predictors of Long-Term Mortality in Oldest Old Patients (90+) Hospitalized to Medical Wards via the Emergency Department: The SAFES Cohort. J Nutr Health Aging. 2015 Jun;19(6):702-7. doi: 10.1007/s12603-015-0515-y.

    PubMed 26054508

  • Lang PO, Mahmoudi R, Novella JL, Tardieu E, Bertholon LA, Nazeyrollas P, Blanchard F, Jolly D, Drame M. Is obesity a marker of robustness in vulnerable hospitalized aged populations? Prospective, multicenter cohort study of 1 306 acutely ill patients. J Nutr Health Aging. 2014 Jan;18(1):66-74. doi: 10.1007/s12603-013-0352-9.

    PubMed 24402392

  • Narbey D, Jolly D, Mahmoudi R, Trenque T, Blanchard F, Novella JL, Drame M. Relationship between anticholinergic drug use and one-year outcome among elderly people hospitalised in medical wards via emergency department: the SAFES cohort study. J Nutr Health Aging. 2013 Sep;17(9):766-71. doi: 10.1007/s12603-013-0349-4.

    PubMed 24154649

  • Drame M, Lang PO, Novella JL, Narbey D, Mahmoudi R, Laniece I, Somme D, Gauvain JB, Heitz D, Voisin T, de Wazieres B, Gonthier R, Ankri J, Saint-Jean O, Jeandel C, Couturier P, Blanchard F, Jolly D. Six-month outcome of elderly people hospitalized via the emergency department: the SAFES cohort. Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique. 2012 Jun;60(3):189-96. doi: 10.1016/j.respe.2011.11.004. Epub 2012 May 16.

    PubMed 22608011

  • Dhaussy G, Drame M, Jolly D, Mahmoudi R, Barbe C, Kanagaratnam L, Nazeyrollas P, Blanchard F, Novella JL; SAFES Group. Is health-related quality of life an independent prognostic factor for 12-month mortality and nursing home placement among elderly patients hospitalized via the emergency department? J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2012 Jun;13(5):453-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2011.10.002. Epub 2011 Nov 13.

    PubMed 22079488

  • Drame M, Novella JL, Jolly D, Laniece I, Somme D, Heitz D, Gauvain JB, Voisin T, De Wazieres B, Gonthier R, Jeandel C, Couturier P, Saint-Jean O, Ankri J, Blanchard F, Lang PO. Rapid cognitive decline, one-year institutional admission and one-year mortality: analysis of the ability to predict and inter-tool agreement of four validated clinical frailty indexes in the SAFEs cohort. J Nutr Health Aging. 2011 Aug;15(8):699-705. doi: 10.1007/s12603-011-0164-8.

    PubMed 21968868

  • Lang PO, Drame M, Mahmoudi R, Jolly D, Laniece I, Saint-Jean O, Somme D, Heitz D, Gauvain JB, Voisin T, de Wazieres B, Gonthier R, Jeandel C, Couturier P, Ankri J, Blanchard F, Novella JL. [Frailty: learnings from the SAFEs cohort study and future perspectives for the research]. Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil. 2011 Jun;9(2):135-49. doi: 10.1684/pnv.2011.0279. French.

    PubMed 21690021

  • Drame M, Fierobe F, Lang PO, Jolly D, Boyer F, Mahmoudi R, Somme D, Laniece I, Heitz D, Gauvain JB, Voisin T, De Wazieres B, Gonthier R, Ankri J, Saint-Jean O, Couturier P, Jeandel C, Blanchard F, Novella JL. Predictors of institution admission in the year following acute hospitalisation of elderly people. J Nutr Health Aging. 2011 May;15(5):399-403. doi: 10.1007/s12603-011-0004-x.

    PubMed 21528168

  • Drame M, Lang PO, Jolly D, Narbey D, Mahmoudi R, Laniece I, Somme D, Gauvain JB, Heitz D, Voisin T, de Wazieres B, Gonthier R, Ankri J, Saint-Jean O, Jeandel C, Couturier P, Blanchard F, Novella JL. Nursing home admission in elderly subjects with dementia: predictive factors and future challenges. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2012 Jan;13(1):83.e17-20. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2011.03.002. Epub 2011 Apr 13.

    PubMed 21493163

  • Lang PO, Drame M, Jolly D, Novella JL, Blanchard F, Michel JP. [What do we learn from the SAFEs cohort to fit hospital care models for aged inpatient?]. Presse Med. 2010 Nov;39(11):1132-42. doi: 10.1016/j.lpm.2010.05.009. Epub 2010 Jul 1. French.

    PubMed 20594791

  • Somme D, Lazarovici C, Drame M, Blanc P, Lang PO, Gauvain JB, Voisin T, Gonthier R, De Wazieres B, Jeandel C, Couturier P, Blanchard F, Saint-Jean O. The geriatric patient: use of acute geriatrics units in the emergency care of elderly patients in France. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2011 Jan-Feb;52(1):40-5. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2010.01.018. Epub 2010 Mar 3.

    PubMed 20202700

  • Lang PO, Zekry D, Michel JP, Drame M, Novella JL, Jolly D, Blanchard F. Early markers of prolonged hospital stay in demented inpatients: a multicentre and prospective study. J Nutr Health Aging. 2010 Feb;14(2):141-7. doi: 10.1007/s12603-009-0182-y.

    PubMed 20126963

  • Drame M, Dia PA, Jolly D, Lang PO, Mahmoudi R, Schwebel G, Kack M, Debart A, Courtaigne B, Laniece I, Blanchard F, Novella JL. [Factors predictive of long-term mortality in patients aged 75 years or older hospitalized from the emergency department: the SAFES cohort]. Presse Med. 2009 Jul-Aug;38(7-8):1068-75. doi: 10.1016/j.lpm.2009.01.019. Epub 2009 Apr 18. French.

    PubMed 19376682

  • Viatonou S, Drame M, Jolly D, Morrone I, Lang PO, Voisin T, Boyer FC, Schwebel G, Somme D, Blanchard F, Novella JL. Predictors of rapid cognitive decline among demented subjects aged 75 or more: ('Sujet Age Fragile--Evaluation et Suivi' Cohort-SAFES). Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2009 Jul;24(7):709-15. doi: 10.1002/gps.2183.

    PubMed 19145574

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Frail Elderly People, run by CHU de Reims at 1 site in France.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 25 Jul 2016. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in France. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Mortality (time frame: up to 36 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT02834728, which also lists 22 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 25 Jul 2016.

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