TY - JOUR
T1 - Data Resource Profile: the Virtual International Care Homes Trials Archive (VICHTA)
AU - Irvine, Lisa
AU - Burton, Jenni
AU - Ali, Myzoon
AU - Booth , Jo
AU - Desborough, James
AU - Logan, Pip
AU - Moniz-Cook, Esme
AU - Surr, Claire
AU - Wright , David
AU - Goodman, Claire
N1 - © The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
PY - 2024/1/15
Y1 - 2024/1/15
N2 - INTRODUCTION: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) conducted in care home settings address a range of health conditions impacting older people, but often include a common core of data about residents and the care home environment. These data can be used to inform service provision, but accessing these data can be challenging.METHODS: The Virtual International Care Home Trials Archive (VICHTA) collates care home RCTs conducted since 2010, with >100 participants, across multiple conditions, with documented eligibility criteria, initially identified from a scoping review. A Steering Committee comprising contributing trialists oversees proposed uses of fully anonymised data. We characterised available demography and outcomes to inform potential analyses. Data are accessible via application to the Virtual Trials Archives, through a secure online analysis platform. Trial recruitment is ongoing and future expansion will include international studies.RESULTS: The first phase of VICHTA includes data from six UK RCTs, with individual participant data (IPD) on 5,674 residents across 308 care homes. IPD include age, sex, dementia status, length of stay, quality of life, clinical outcome measures, medications, resource use, and care home characteristics, such as funding, case mix, and occupancy. Follow-up ranges between four and sixteen months.CONCLUSIONS: VICHTA collates and makes accessible data on a complex and under-represented research population for novel analyses, and to inform design of future studies. Planned expansion to international care home RCTs will facilitate a wider range of research questions. Interested collaborators can submit trial data or request data at http://www.virtualtrialsarchives.org.
AB - INTRODUCTION: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) conducted in care home settings address a range of health conditions impacting older people, but often include a common core of data about residents and the care home environment. These data can be used to inform service provision, but accessing these data can be challenging.METHODS: The Virtual International Care Home Trials Archive (VICHTA) collates care home RCTs conducted since 2010, with >100 participants, across multiple conditions, with documented eligibility criteria, initially identified from a scoping review. A Steering Committee comprising contributing trialists oversees proposed uses of fully anonymised data. We characterised available demography and outcomes to inform potential analyses. Data are accessible via application to the Virtual Trials Archives, through a secure online analysis platform. Trial recruitment is ongoing and future expansion will include international studies.RESULTS: The first phase of VICHTA includes data from six UK RCTs, with individual participant data (IPD) on 5,674 residents across 308 care homes. IPD include age, sex, dementia status, length of stay, quality of life, clinical outcome measures, medications, resource use, and care home characteristics, such as funding, case mix, and occupancy. Follow-up ranges between four and sixteen months.CONCLUSIONS: VICHTA collates and makes accessible data on a complex and under-represented research population for novel analyses, and to inform design of future studies. Planned expansion to international care home RCTs will facilitate a wider range of research questions. Interested collaborators can submit trial data or request data at http://www.virtualtrialsarchives.org.
KW - care homes
KW - older adults
KW - randomised controlled trials
KW - Humans
KW - Aged
KW - Homes for the Aged
KW - Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85184754942&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.23889/ijpds.v8i6.2161
DO - 10.23889/ijpds.v8i6.2161
M3 - Review article
C2 - 38425721
SN - 2399-4908
VL - 8
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS)
JF - International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS)
IS - 6
M1 - 04
ER -