Integrated Interdisciplinary Program for Fall Prevention in Hospitalized Patients

Changhua Christian Medical Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: the Fall Rates; the Severity of Injuries

Treatments: Behavioral: integrated multidisciplinary fall prevention program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01817920

CCH-091237

Details and patient eligibility

About

Falls are very common accidents in Hospital. It not only results in injuries, less mobility among patients but increases their length of stay, cost and family burdens. Reducing the rates and injuries of falls is an urgent issue around hospitals.

An integrated multidisciplinary fall prevention program (IMFPP) was implemented from 2006 in CCH. Members include physicians, nurses, case manager therapists, engineers and staffs of maintenance. The aim of this study is to determine whether IMFPP efforts support interventions with multiple components do reduce the fall rates and severity of injuries.

Enrollment: 3,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient in CCH's fall incidence reports system

Exclusion criteria

• No

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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3,000 participants in 1 patient group

integrated multidisciplinary fall prevention program

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: integrated multidisciplinary fall prevention program