A multi-centre study to evaluate community hospital care for older people

ISRCTN	ISRCTN56520131
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN56520131
Secondary identifying numbers	121/7509

Submission date: 03/07/2006
Registration date: 14/07/2006
Last edited: 01/09/2008

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Other

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Contact information

Prof John Young
Scientific

Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation
University of Leeds
St Luke's Hospital
Little Horton Lane
Bradford
BD5 0NA
United Kingdom

Phone	+44 (0) 127 436 5311
Email	john.young@bradfordhospitals.nhs.uk

Study information

Study design	A mixed methods design incorporating a single 'blind', randomised, prospective multi-centre trial implemented in five study locations
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Hospital
Study type	Quality of life
Scientific title
Study acronym	The 'PATCH' study
Study objectives	1. Do older people transferred to a community hospital obtain and maintain a greater degree of functional independence? 2. Is carer burden and strain reduced? 3. Is the patient and carer experience more favourable? 4. Are the "whole system" costs (Health and Social Services combined) comparable or less with the community hospital model of care?
Ethics approval(s)	Medical Research Ethics Committee (MREC) approval gained on 1/3/35. Approval also gained from the following boards: 1. East Cumbria LREC (no reference number). 2. South Birmingham LREC (reference number: 5787M). 3. Northallerton LREC (no reference number). 4. York LREC (reference number: 01/08/012).
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	All older patients admitted to the department of elderly care.
Intervention	Intervention group: post-acute care in a community hospital providing a multi-disciplinary rehabilitation approach Control group: extended general hospital stay with multi-disciplinary care
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	1. Patient: Nottingham Extended Activities of Daily Living Scale 2. Carer: General Health Questionnaire 28
Secondary outcome measures	1. Patient: a. Barthel Index b. Nottingham Health Profile c. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale d. Euroqol (EQ5D)scale e. service satisfaction f. mortality g. discharge destination h. resource use 2. Carer: Carer Strain Index
Overall study start date	01/03/2000
Completion date	01/03/2003

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Senior
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	500
Key inclusion criteria	All patients (casualty and direct from general practitioner) admitted to the participating departments of elderly care with a postcode address corresponding to the locality served by the seven Community Hospitals will be eligible for inclusion to the trial. The patient must be sufficiently medically stable for the non-district general hospital care to be clinically appropriate.
Key exclusion criteria	Acutely ill or medically unstable patients will be exluded.
Date of first enrolment	01/03/2000
Date of final enrolment	01/03/2003

Locations

Countries of recruitment

England
United Kingdom

Study participating centre

Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation

Bradford
BD5 0NA
United Kingdom

Sponsor information

National Institute for Health Research Central Commissioning Facility (NIHR-CCF) (UK)
Government

PO Box 407
Teddington
TW11 0XX
United Kingdom

Website	http://www.nihr-ccf.org.uk/site/default.cfm
"ROR"	https://ror.org/03c1etk80

Funders

Funder type

Government

Department of Health/Medical Research Council (reference number: 1217509) under the umbrella of the National Intermediate Care Evaluation Programme - part of the department's policy research programme to support the national service framework for older people: the Older People and Unscheduled care Services group (OPUS) programme.

No information available

Results and Publications

Intention to publish date
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan

Study outputs

Output type	Details	Date created	Date added	Peer reviewed?	Patient-facing?
Results article		01/12/2007		Yes	No
Other publications		01/09/2008		Yes	No