Prevention of Falls in the Elderly Population

The Guthrie Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Accidental Falls

Treatments: Behavioral: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03614897

1712-62

Details and patient eligibility

About

An educational intervention will be utilized to improve care following guidelines for treating individuals at risk of falling. A survey will be administered to providers pre and post education.

Enrollment: 43 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Primary care providers in Family Medicine and Internal Medicine

Exclusion criteria

• Providers in outlying clinics

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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43 participants in 1 patient group

Education

Experimental group

Description:

Providers participating in education related to guidelines for treating patients at risk of falling

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education