Evaluating the Treatment in the MZEB Aachen
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: standard treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Intellectual Disability, Disability Physical. Basic parameters: 18 years — 80 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Germany
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Evaluating the Treatment in the the Center for Disabled People in Aachen (MZEB Aachen) - a Registry on Patients With Severe Disabilities
Overview
Evaluation of patient characteristics, involved physicians and therapists as well as therapies in a German University Center for the Treatment of patients with intellectual disabilities and severe multiple disability (MZEB Aachen)
Detailed description
In the MZEB Aachen, since 11/2018 patients with intellectual disabilities and/or severe multiple disabilities are diagnosed, treated and accompanied for many years in a multidisciplinary setting with physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, ergo therapists, speech therapists and Support by social workers. MZEBs are considered to have a pilot function in the health care system, cooperating with therapists and physicians in the surroundings. This concept is established as a new concept in Germany in order to optimise health care for patients with disabilities. Thus we want to investigate patient characteristics, diagnoses, involved physicians and therapists as well as proposed therapies and disease progress in this center.
Interventions
- Other standard treatment
there ist no Intervention but our standart Treatment in the center
Primary outcome measures
- change in number of therapy sessions [Time frame: baseline and after one year treatment]
- Change in diagnoses [Time frame: baseline and after one year treatment]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- intellectual disability and/or severe multiple disability (disability degree GdB at least 70 and at least one noticeable sign
- willing to participate
Exclusion criteria
- housed in an Institution and/or prison
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
Germany · 1 center
- RWTH Aachen University — Aachen
Identifiers
NCT: NCT04781452 · 19-006