Recommendations on Hospital Falls Prevention and Management
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- FallsInjuries and Accidents - Other injuries and accidentsFrailtyInjuries 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
Name Time Method 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
Name Time Method 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.]