COFRAIL Baseline Characteristics
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Abbreviations: CASMIN, comparative analysis of social mobility in industrial nations; GFR, glomerular filtration rate; GPs, general practitioners.SI conversion: To convert glucose to millimoles per liter, multiply by 0.0555.Study physician's statement from the patient file.Maximum of physician's indication and participant's indication.Participants’ need for care assessed by the medical service of the German social care insurance.Information obtained from participants/relatives.The study population initially included 623 participants but decreased to 521 participants after 41 individuals in the intervention group and 61 in the control group dropped out before the study nurses were able to conduct the home visits for the baseline assessment. Of the 521 participants at baseline, a total of 129 individuals did not participate in T2 (65 in the intervention group, 64 in the control group). Reasons included withdrawal of consent (intervention, 16; control, 18), death (intervention, 29; control, 30), or other reasons (intervention, 20; control, 16).For the ITT analysis, the primary outcome (number of hospitalizations) was also collected for the participants lost to follow-up at the time of dropping out. However, these data could not be obtained for 11 individuals, resulting in an ITT population of 510 participants.A total of 385 participants (intervention, 200; control, 185) had a complete follow-up survey spanning 12 months (T0-T2) and attended at least 2 family conferences in the intervention group. These participants were included in the PP analysis (