Clinical trial NCT01483456: Impact of Multidisciplinary Program on Falls in Elderly Inpatients
Official title: A Multidisciplinary Program for Preventing Falls "Identify, Prevent and Get up": Impact on Falls in Elderly Inpatients
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Falls Among Elderly Inpatients
Keywords: Accidental falls
safety management
aged
inpatient
stepped wedge design
Lead sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2011-12-01
Enrollment: 1852
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 65
Standard ages: OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: 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.


Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Incidence of falls among elderly inpatients
timeFrame: patients will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, 15 months maximum
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Incidence of fall-related mortality
timeFrame: patients will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, 15 months maximum
measure: Incidence of fall-related
timeFrame: patients will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, 15 months maximum
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Albigny-sur-Saône
country: France
facility: Centre Hospitalier Gériatrique du Mont d'Or
city: Aubenas
country: France
facility: Centre Hospitalier d'Ardèche Méridionale - Service de Gériatrie, Centre Hospitalier d'Ardèche Méridionale
city: Bourg en Bresse
country: France
facility: Centre Hospitalier de Bourg en Bresse - Pôle filière gériatrique, Centre Hospitalier de Bourg en Bresse
city: Caluire et Cuire
country: France
facility: Hospices Civils de Lyon - Hôpital Frédérique Dugoujon
city: Francheville
country: France
facility: Hospices Civils de Lyon - Hôpital Antoine Charial
city: Lyon
country: France
facility: Hospices Civils de Lyon - Hôpital Pierre Garraud
city: Lyon
country: France
facility: Hospices Civils de Lyon - Service de Médecine gériatrique, Hôpital Edouard Herriot
city: Meximieux
country: France
facility: Hôpital Local de Meximieux
city: Pierre-Bénite
country: France
facility: Hospices Civils de Lyon - Service de Médecine gériatrique, Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud
city: Pringy
country: France
facility: Centre Hospitalier d'Annecy - Pôle de Gériatrie - Centre Hospitalier d'Annecy
city: Vienne
country: France
facility: Centre Hospitalier Lucien Hussel - Pôle gérontologie
city: Villeurbanne
country: France
facility: Hospices Civils de Lyon - Service de Gériatrie - Hôpital des Charpennes
Study officials:
affiliation: Hospices Civils de Lyon
name: Pierre KROLAK-SALMON
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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