Impact of Multidisciplinary Program on Falls in Elderly Inpatients (IPR)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Falls Among Elderly Inpatients

Treatments: Other: The multidisciplinary prevention program called "IPR" (in French "Identifier, Prévenir, Relever")

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01483456

2011.666

Details and patient eligibility

About

Falls among elderly inpatients are common, multifactorial and associated with a significant increase of complications and morbidity. According to a recent Cochrane review, the effectiveness of fall prevention program has been assessed in community-dwelling and in long stay wards but not in rehabilitation wards (RW) and geriatric acute wards (GAW). IPR study aims to measure the impact of a multidisciplinary prevention program on falls in elderly inpatients.

Enrollment: 1,852 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male or female subject aged over 65 years
• Admitted during the study
• Participation agreement

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with a MMSE<10 and incapable to participate to a reeducation program
• Patient with an evolutionary and\or badly checked psychiatric pathology
• Bedridden patient

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,852 participants in 1 patient group

Usual care

Other group

Treatment:

Other: The multidisciplinary prevention program called "IPR" (in French "Identifier, Prévenir, Relever")