The HIP-HOP Flooring Study: Helping Injury Prevention in Hospitalised Older People

University of Portsmouth

Status: Completed

Conditions: Accidental Falls

Treatments: Other: New flooring

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00817869

13247

UKCRN ID: 5735

Details and patient eligibility

About

In hospitals, older people can fall and hurt themselves. The investigators want to see if a new type of flooring can help stop people hurting themselves as badly, if they accidentally fall.

Full description

We will carry out the study in eight elderly care wards across England. We will first study the wards for up to 6 months. Then, half of the wards will have the new floor laid. Wards will be chosen to receive the new floor, or remain with a standard floor, by chance. The new floor has 'shock-absorbent' properties. We will study all the wards for another 12 months. This will allow us to compare the new flooring with the normal flooring.

Enrollment: 571 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all patients admitted to the study area on a participating elderly care ward

Exclusion criteria

• none.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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571 participants in 2 patient groups

New Flooring

Experimental group

Description:

Will receive 8.3mm thick floor covering (Omnisports EXCEL) to replace previous floor covering.

Treatment:

Other: New flooring

Standard Flooring

No Intervention group

Description:

Ward will remain with standard floor covering. The overlay will have a comparable slip resistance rating to the new flooring. The sub-floor will also be comparable.