Clinical trials: Nursing Home
COVID-19
COVID-19 Serologic Strategies for Skilled Nursing Facilities
The COVID-19 pandemic ravaged United States skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs). Novel strategies that maximize the safety and quality of life for SNF residents with ADRD and staff who care for them are urgently needed.
- Trial name
- CERO (NCT05270980)
- Testing
- Cohorting
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 87 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Pathologic Processes
Adapting Connect-Home Transitional Care for the Unique Needs of Persons With Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias and Their Caregivers
This primary purpose of this study will be to (1) examine the feasibility and acceptability of transitional care focusing on care needs of skilled nursing facility (SNF) patients with dementia and their caregivers (primary aim).
- Trial name
- NCT05887388
- Testing
- Connect-Home Plus
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 38 people
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Schizophrenia Spectrum & Other Psychotic Disorders
PACT for Individuals With Serious Mental Illness
People with serious mental illness have difficulty making good use of primary care, and die, on average, years earlier than others in the population.
- Trial name
- SMI-PACT (NCT01668355)
- Testing
- Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT)
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 331 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Pneumonia
Effects of the Oral Care With Vaccines for Pneumonia in Elderly; Going Home Together Both Physician and Dentist
Prospective study comparing the effects of interventions (combined oral care and pneumococcal plus influenza vaccinations) in preventing pneumonia and increasing the survival rate from pneumonia.
- Trial name
- NCT01403805
- Testing
- Pneumococcal vaccination (Pneumovax NP, 21800AMY10131000), Influenza vaccination (Flubik HA, 16100EZZ01207000), Specific frequency of oral care
- Where
- Japan
- Volunteers
- 199 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yubari Kibounomori
COPD Exacerbation
Early Assisted Discharge for COPD Exacerbations With Telemonitoring.
To determine if an early assisted discharge program for acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD), with telemonitoring and telephone control, is equally effective and more efficient in terms of use of health care resources, that a…
- Trial name
- NCT01951261
- Testing
- Telemonitoring and telephone control
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 116 people
- Sponsor
- Dr. López Viña
Polypharmacy, Inappropriate Prescribing
Opportunities and Limits to Deprescribing in Nursing Homes:Quality Circle Deprescribing Module
Older people residing in nursing homes (NH) are frequently polymedicated and often prescribed potentially inappropriate medications.
- Trial name
- OLD-NH-QC-DeMo (NCT03688542)
- Testing
- Quality Circle Deprescribing Module
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Anne Niquille
Influenza
High Dose Influenza Vaccine in Nursing Home - Pilot Study
The purpose of this pilot evaluation is to help determine the feasibility and power needed to prospectively evaluate relative effectiveness of high-dose influenza vaccine in preventing influenza mortality and hospitalization in a…
- Trial name
- NCT01720277
- Testing
- HD Fluzone Vaccine, SD Fluzone Vaccine
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 2,957 people
- Sponsor
- Insight Therapeutics, LLC
COVID-19 Vaccines
Improving COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in Nursing Homes
SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, now being administered to skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents and staff, has highly variable acceptance between facilities.
- Trial name
- NCT04732819
- Testing
- High touch multi-pronged behavioral intervention
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 23,768 people
- Sponsor
- Brown University
Depression
Medication Treatment for Depression in Nursing Home Residents
This study will examine therapeutic and adverse effects of continuing versus discontinuing antidepressant medication in nursing home residents who have had no more than a single episode of depression and who no longer have…
- Trial name
- NCT00076622
- Testing
- Antidepressant medication, No antidepressant medication
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 94 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Alzheimer Disease, Dementia
Aligning Patient Preferences: a Role Offering Alzheimer's Patients, Caregivers, and Healthcare Providers Education and Support
Nursing home (NH) patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias often receive unwanted, burdensome treatments such as hospitalization.
- Trial name
- APPROACHES (NCT03323502)
- Testing
- APPROACHES ACP Specialist Program, Standard of care
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 47,396 people
- Sponsor
- Indiana University
Ageing
Implementation of Knowledge-Based Palliative Care
The research on ageing during the last couple of decades has increasingly focused on questions regarding the quality of life and life satisfaction of the old people.
- Trial name
- KUPA (NCT02708498)
- Testing
- Educational Intervention
- Where
- 30 sites in Sweden
- Volunteers
- 1,151 people
- Sponsor
- Lund University
Long-Term Care, Long-term Care Facility
Effect of Empathy-Based Program on Nursing Assistants in Long-term Care Facilities
This randomized controlled trial aims to explore the impact of an Empathy-Based Program on the level of empathy among nursing assistants in a long-term care facility.
- Trial name
- NCT07044492
- Testing
- Virtual Reality (VR) with Debriefing
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 103 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Taipei Medical University
Dementia
Home-delivered Meals for Persons With Dementia: Which Model Delays Nursing Home Placement?
This project is the pilot phase of a pragmatic randomized clinical trial comparing outcomes among older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) receiving home-delivered meals.
- Trial name
- NCT04850781
- Testing
- Bi-weekly frozen meal home delivery, Daily home meal delivery
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 243 people
- Sponsor
- Brown University
Advance Care Planning, Palliative Care
Palliative Care for Persons With ADRD and CI in SNF
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are serious, life limiting illnesses with no known cure. Dementia is the fifth-leading cause of death in older adults and the majority of people with advanced dementia die in…
- Conditions
- Advance Care Planning, Palliative Care, Skilled Nursing Facility, Cognitive Impairment
- Trial name
- NCT05308004
- Testing
- Palliative Care Consultation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 7 people
- Sponsor
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
Chronic Disease, Acute Disease
Involving Nursing Home Residents and Their Families in Acute Care Transfer Decisions
This study addresses the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) area of interest related to development of decision support tools that bring patients, families and clinicians together to decide, in this instance…
- Trial name
- NCT02568475
- Testing
- Provision of "Go to the Hospital or Stay Here?"
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 192 people
- Sponsor
- Florida Atlantic University
Lung Cancer
Home Telemonitoring for Patients With Lung Cancer
The purpose of this study is to learn more about using a home machine "Telemonitor" to find problems people with lung cancer may have after being discharged from the hospital and help them manage problems by contacting their…
- Trial name
- HTPLC (NCT01670539)
- Testing
- HomMed Telemonitor
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 47 people
- Sponsor
- West Virginia University
Dementia
Music & MEmory: A Pragmatic TRial for Nursing Home Residents With ALzheimer's Disease_part1
The purpose of this trial is to test the effects of a personalized music intervention (Music and Memory, Inc.) on agitated and aggressive behaviors for nursing home residents with dementia.
- Trial name
- METRIcAL (NCT03821844)
- Testing
- Music and Memory
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,073 people
- Sponsor
- Brown University
Palliative Care, Advance Care Planning
Palliative Care Consultations in the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Setting
Close to one-third of Medicare decedents use the Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) benefit in the 6 months prior to death.
- Conditions
- Palliative Care, Advance Care Planning, Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Trial name
- NCT03958552
- Testing
- Palliative Care Consultation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 45 people
- Sponsor
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
Pseudobulbar Affect (Involuntary Laughing and/or Crying)
Effectiveness, Safety, and Health-Related Outcomes of NUEDEXTA® in Nursing Home Patients With Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA)
6 month study of NUEDEXTA ® (Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide and Quinidine Sulfate) for the treatment of Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) in Nursing Home Patients.
- Trial name
- NCT02496039
- Testing
- NUEDEXTA®
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 5 people
- Sponsor
- Avanir Pharmaceuticals
Pressure Injury
Skin Change Actions by Nursing
Pressure injuries, local areas of damage to the skin and underlying soft tissue that are costly and painful, are often preventable with timely use of prevention strategies.
- Trial name
- SCAN (NCT06127524)
- Testing
- SEM Scanner
- Where
- 7 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 4,733 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles