The 6-PACK program to decrease fall-related injuries in acute hospitals - measuring effectiveness, potential cost savings and capacity to be a long term solution.

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: In hospital falls and fall-related injuries; Injuries and Accidents - Fractures; Injuries and Accidents - Other injuries and accidents; Public Health - Health promotion/education

• Registration Number: ACTRN12611000332921
• Lead Sponsor: Monash University

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2011-03-29
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40000

Inclusion Criteria

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.

Exclusion Criteria

Any detail contradicting the above inclusion criteria.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified