An observational study in Aged, Home Care, Hospital-Based and Home Care Services, sponsored by Vastra Gotaland Region. Recruiting at 1 site in Sweden. Open to participants aged 75 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-28.
Sponsored by Vastra Gotaland Region · Observational
This observational study aims to examine outcomes of home-based acute care delivered by a mobile healthcare team in persons aged 75 years and older following an episode of acute illness.
The study will assess whether home-based acute care initiated by the emergency medical dispatch centre or ambulance services is non-inferior to emergency department care with regard to care needs and mortality.
57 studies on the registry are indexed under Acute Disease; 12 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 5,000 is above the median of 900 across 22 observational studies indexed under Acute Disease.
Browse Acute Disease studies →Vastra Gotaland Region is the lead sponsor of 275 studies on the registry; 109 are open to participants now.
Compared within Acute Disease, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Emergencies. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →
The study population consists of persons aged 75 years and older with an acute illness who contact the emergency number (112) and are assessed by the Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre or ambulance services, and who subsequently receive either home-based acute care from a mobile healthcare team or care at the emergency department.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Other: Type of care pathway
Other: Type of care pathway
Home-based acute care from a mobile healthcare team
Need of hospital-based care
Time frame: within 30 days
Mortality
Time frame: 12 months
Plan to share: No — Individual participant data will not be made publicly available due to privacy and legal restrictions.
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