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Recommendations on Hospital Falls Prevention and Management

Not Applicable
Conditions
Falls
Injuries and Accidents - Other injuries and accidents
Frailty
Injuries and Accidents - Fractures
Registration Number
ACTRN12624000257561
Lead Sponsor
a Trobe University
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot yet recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
40
Inclusion Criteria

Participants will be registered health professionals or consumers with lived experience of hospital falls

Exclusion Criteria

Participants will be registered health professionals or consumers with lived experience of hospital falls

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Falls Prevention and Management Methods[Qualitative Analysis. Feedback and advice will be collected on falls prevention and management from emailed questionnaires and from a consensus meeting online. Baseline, then at fortnightly intervals up to 3 additional Delphi questionnaire rounds by email and then a final online consensus meeting 2 months after the baseline questionnaire.]
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Agreement[The questionnaires have been designed by the researchers based on a recent systematic review of current global hospital falls guidelines. After the initial baseline questionnaire, any question that does not have at least 75% agreement between respondents will be moved to the next round. Alongside feedback, the remaining questions will be presented to the participants at this next round. This process will continue for up to 3 rounds after baseline. at the final online consensus meeting the results from all surveys will be presented, including the level of agreement for each section. Any remaining questions with less than 75% agreement will be debated until consensus is reached. Agreement across all questions will be determined at the online consensus meeting 2 months after the baseline questionnaire.]
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