Prehospital Screening to Prevent Injury and Illness

University of Rochester

Status: Completed

Conditions: All Conditions

Treatments: Procedure: Education and referral

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00382655

10019

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this project is to prevent injuries and diseases among older adults through the development and evaluation of a novel emergency medical services (EMS)-based screening program to identify preventable injuries and diseases and refer the identified injuries and diseases for intervention.

To prevent injuries and diseases among older adults, this study specifically aims to:

1. Evaluate the feasibility of an EMS-based primary prevention program that screens older adults for need of the influenza and pneumococcal vaccine and for risk of falling during emergency medical responses in a rural setting;
2. Evaluate the outcome of the EMT-implemented screening and education program by performing a 14-day telephone follow-up on older adults cared for by EMTs.

At the conclusion of this award, we will determine if an EMT-implemented primary prevention program for older adults is feasible and benefits the community.

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 65 or older;
• Request assistance from intervention group EMS agency
• Request assistance from control group EMS agency
• Request assistance between February 2003 and June 2005

Exclusion criteria

• Institutionalized
• Previous inclusion in study
• Unable to communicate in English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)