Falls prevention in the acute hospital setting: a multi-centre cluster randomised controlled trial of efficacy, cost effectiveness and sustainability of the 6-PACK program.

Monash University0 sites40,000 target enrollmentMarch 29, 2011

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

March 29, 2011

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

6 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•The hypotheses will be explored using a multicentre single blinded cluster RCT. Hospitals will be asked to identify wards where fall\-related injuries are a problem as potential wards to participate in the study. For wards to be eligible to participate in the project the following criteria must be met:
•Acute medical and surgical wards (primarily adult wards); Average patient length of stay \<10 days;
•Wards to have one or less low\-low bed to six standard beds on medical wards and one or less low\-low bed to 29 standard beds on surgical wards; and
•No falls risk assessment and/or intervention checklist on the DAILY patient care plan documentation.
•Wards that have a policy to complete a falls risk assessment tool on admission and / or as status changes will not be excluded from the study. All patients admitted to participating wards during the study observation period will be included in the study.