Falls Reduction for Elderly Emergency Department patients (FREED): a pilot efficacy randomized, controlled trial study
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Elderly Emergency Department Falls patientsfallselderlyemergency departmentFREED
- Registration Number
- TCTR20180522002
- Lead Sponsor
- avamindradhiraj University Research Fund
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 400
Inclusion Criteria
1. Patients age 65 years and older who presenting with unintentional fall to the ED.
2. Patients have fall history within 7 day prior ED visit.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients who refuse consent
2. Patients whose unintentional falls resulted from a major health event (e.g. myocardial infarction) or overwhelming external hazard.
3. Severe trauma
4. Patients who do not live in the community
5. Patients who have lower extremity and spinal fractures that require surgery, head injuries that require admission (given these patients will likely have a long encounter in a rehabilitative center)
6. Patients deemed too unstable according to the clinician judgment
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Recurrent falls 1,6, 12 months Telephone follow up and fall calendar
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ED revisits, subsequent hospitalization, death 1,6, 12 months telephone follow up, medical record