A Targeted Falls Prevention Program in Rehabilitation In-Patients

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Accidental Falls
• Interventions: Other: Multidisciplinary falls prevention

• Registration Number: NCT00973297
• Lead Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization

Brief Summary

Falls are a major complication in patients treated in rehabilitation departments, yet studies evaluating different interventions to reduce falls-risk are rare and inconclusive.

The aim of the present study is to evaluate the efficacy of a multidisciplinary fall-prevention program to reduce falls and injury in stroke patients treated in a rehabilitation department.

All stroke patients consecutively admitted to the department of rehabilitation at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center for a period of one year will be eligible for inclusion. Upon receiving an informed consent subjects will be randomized to the intervention group or the control (convention care) group.

There are no exclusion criteria. The Intervention includes group education on risk of falling and safe mobility and transfers; physical therapy of balance training at the patients' bedside twice weekly and medical assessment of medication use (anxiolytics/hypnotics, neuroleptics, antihypertensives and other vasodilators), orthostatic hypotension, urinary frequency/incontinence, delirium and visual problems.

Intervention therapy will not be given as an extra time, rather at the same treatment time as the control group.

Primary outcomes are rate of falls and related injuries.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2009-08-25
• Status Verified: 2009-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-09-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2009-09-08
• Study First Posted: 2009-09-09
• Last Update Posted: 2009-09-09
• Study Start: 2009-11
• Primary Completion: 2010-11
• Study Completion: 2010-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• All stroke patients admitted to rehabilitation

Exclusion Criteria

• None

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Falls prevention	Multidisciplinary falls prevention	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Rate of falls and fall-related injury	At one year

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hadassah Medical Organization; 🇮🇱 Jerusalem, Israel