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Table 1 Assessments and time of measurement

From: Reduction of care-relevant risks to older patients during and after acute hospital care (ReduRisk) – study protocol of a cluster randomized efficacy trial in a stepped wedge design

Month

0

At discharge

6

18

Time of measurement

t0

t1

t2

t3

Risk-Screening

    

 Functional decline and re-hospitalization (ISAR)

X

   

 Falls/ Immobility (SPPB)

X

   

 Delirium (risk-screening according to UKF-delirium standard, 3D-CAM)

X

   

Basic Data

    

 Sociodemographic data

X

   

 Diagnoses

X

   

Primary Outcome

    

 Mobility (SPPB)

X

X

X

 

 Activities of daily living (Barthel index)

X

X

X

 

Secondary Outcome

    

 Cognition (MOCA)

X

X

X

 

 Delirium (3D-CAM)

X

X

X

 

 Falls (Number in total, injuries / fractures)

X

X

X

 

 Grip strength (Dynamometer)

X

X

X

 

 Health-related quality of life (SF-12)

X

X

X

 

 Potentially inappropriate medications (STOPP/START)

X

X

X

 

 Re-hospitalization (AOK—claims data)

 

 → 

 

X

 Health care costs (AOK—claims data)

 → 

  

X

  1. 3D-CAM Confusion Assessment Method, AOK Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse (Statutory Health Insurance), ISAR Identification of Seniors At Risk, MOCA Montreal Cognitive Assessment, SPPB Short Physical Performance Battery, STOPP/START Screening Tool of Older Persons’s Prescriptions / Screening Tool to Alert to Right Treatment, UKF-Delirium Standard Internal Standard for Delirium Prevention and Treatment of the University of Freiburg Medical Center