Improving fall prevention by providing tailored information to elderly patients
- Conditions
- Older adults, Geriatrics, Falling, fall outpatient clinic
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON23017
- Lead Sponsor
- Academic Medical Center (AMC)
- Brief Summary
[Askari 2013] Marjan Askari, Richard Westerhof , Saied Eslami, Stephanie Medlock, Sophia E. de Rooij, Ameen Abu-Hanna. A combined disease management and process modeling approach for assessing and improving care processes: A fall management case-study. International Journal of Medical Informatics informatics - DOI:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.06.011.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 208
Inclusion Criteria
Patients aged 65 or older who visit the emergency department due to a fall are included.
Exclusion Criteria
Those patients who entered the emergency department with an ambulance and/or are not able to fill in the questionnaire are excluded.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary outcome is the percentage of patients who are invited to the outpatient fall clinic who actually visit the clinic.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method (a) The difference between the perceived and predicted probability of recurrent falls. (b) The percentage of completed questionnaires (in comparison to care as usual).