DETECT-RPC Universal EM Screening
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: Detection of Elder mistreatment Through Emergency Care Technicians-Revised for Primary Care (DETECT-RPC) screening tool.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Elder Abuse, Elder Mistreatment. Basic parameters: from 18 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
- United States
- 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
Detection of Elder Mistreatment Through Emergency Care Technicians - Revised for Primary Care (DETECT-RPC) Universal EM Screening
Overview
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the use of the Detection of Elder Mistreatment Through Emergency Care Technicians-Revised for Primary Care (DETECT-RPC) screening tool increases the average reporting of elder mistreatment (EM) by homebased primary care (HBPC) clinicians.
Interventions
- Behavioral Detection of Elder mistreatment Through Emergency Care Technicians-Revised for Primary Care (DETECT-RPC) screening tool
DETECT is an elder mistreatment (EM) screening tool created for medics in the Fort Worth Texas area to use when responding to the homes of older adults, enabling them to screen for signs of elder mistreatment. DETECT-RPC is the adapted version of this tool designed specifically for use by home-based primary care (HBPC) clinicians. The DETECT-RPC tool is designed to: 1. Be brief and easy to use. 2. Focus on the clinician's direct observations of the older adult and their physical and social env
Primary outcome measures
- number of reports of EM [Time frame: from randomization to termination of data collection (3 years)]
- Mortality [Time frame: from randomization to termination of data collection (3 years)]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria (Clinicians):
- Clinician who actively provides home-based primary care (HBPC) to patients enrolled in one of our partner home-based primary care programs at least part time.
Exclusion Criteria (Clinicians):
- HBPC Clinicians must be a physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant who actively provides home-based primary care to patients enrolled at a partner site HBPC at least part time
Inclusion Criteria (patients):
- in home-based primary care
- 60 years or older
- seen by a clinician participating in the study
Exclusion Criteria (patients)
- Must be aged 60 and older, enrolled in a site-specific partner HBPC and treated in their primary residence
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Screening
Study locations
United States · 7 centers
- University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham
- University of California San Francisco — San Francisco
- John Hopkins University Medicine International — Baltimore
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center — Dallas
- Baylor College of Medicine — Houston
- The University of Texas health Science Center at Houston( LBJ House Calls Program) — Houston
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston( UT Physicians House Calls Progra — Houston
Publications
- Cannell B, Sevey N, Livingston MD, Burnett J, Lees Haggerty K, Pickering C. Detection of Elder Abuse Through Emergency Care Technicians Screening Tool Revision for Home-Based Primary Care (DETECT-RPC): a cluster randomised controlled trial study protocol. BMJ Open. 2025 Jan 15;15(1):e089028. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-089028. PMID 39819945
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05958654 · DETECT-RPC · 4R33AG078523-03