Fall prevention through education and coaching trial (PROTECT)
- Conditions
- FallsPublic Health - Health service researchInjuries and Accidents - Other injuries and accidents
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12624000896572
- Lead Sponsor
- Sydney Local Health District
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 5808
Trial participants: Inpatient hospital wards at 4 hospital sites across one local health district. Eligible wards will be acute or subacute, medical or surgical wards.
Staff survey and interview participants: Staff employed by the participating hospital working in nursing, allied health, medical, administrative, or environmental services teams on a ward enrolled to participate in the intervention.
Patient and family member/carer survey and interview participants: Admitted inpatient or family member/carer of admitted inpatient on participating ward, deemed cognitively and medically well enough to participate in a survey or interview as per Nurse Unit Manager of the ward’s clinical judgment.
Trial participants: Emergency Departments, Intensive Care Units, Paediatric and neonatal wards, Wards currently participating in another research trial with patient falls as a listed outcome, Outpatient settings.
Staff survey and interview participants: Has worked on the participating ward for less than one week.
Patient and family member/carer survey and interview participants: Inpatient who has not spent any time on ward not participating in intervention; deemed not cognitively and/or medically well enough to participate in a survey as per the Nurse Unit Manager of the ward’s clinical judgment.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Rate of falls per 1000 patient bed days.[Data will be extracted from hospital databases. At the conclusion of study.]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method