Effectiveness of the Montpellier Falls Clinic in Preventing Injuries in Older High-risk Adults
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 160
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Serious falls
Study Overview
Brief Summary
A falls prevention clinic opened in Montpellier (France) in 2015. The objective of the project is to evaluate whether the tailored multifactorial programme delivered in this real practice setting by a geriatrician, a podiatrist, a physiotherapist, and a occupational therapist would help prevent injuries in high-risk older patients using a 6-month pre-post intervention analysis.
Detailed Description
The Montpellier falls prevention clinic is a referral-based clinic specialized in the prevention of falls and fractures among patients aged 65+ (http://www.chu-montpellier.fr/fr/crepc/). The FPC that opened in 2015 is a member of the European Commission in its European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) A2 action plan. The main mission of the clinic is to identify the underlying causes of the patients' falls, and to address modifiable risk factors in collaboration with family physicians in order to prevent injurious falls.
Based on a geriatric assessment performed by a geriatrician, a podologist, a occupational therapist, and a physiotherapist, the likely diagnoses and recommendations are notified in the medical report that is handed over to the patient or the caregiver for the patient's GP, along with the prescriptions, and sent also by mail to the GP. Recommendations remain under the GP's control with the possibility of another consultation if needed.
All patients admitted to the FPC are reassessed by phone at 3 months to register falls and injuries, and at 6 months to register falls and injuries, assess fear of falling, mobility and ability to perform activities of daily living, and satisfaction for the programme, and list proposed measures effectively applied.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Cohort
- Time Perspective
- Prospective
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 65 Years to — (Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •All patients aged 65 or older with a history in the previous year of recurrent falls, or of a fall associated with a balance, gait, or muscle strength problem referred to the Montpellier falls prevention clinic
Exclusion Criteria
- •patients unable to walk 3 metres with or without an assistive device
- •patients expected to live for less than 6 months based on the geriatricians' expert opinion
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Serious falls
Time Frame: 1 day
Falls with serious injuries are those that cause fractures, head injuries requiring admission to hospital, joint dislocations, sprains accompanied by reduced physical function, other non-specified serious joint injuries, and lacerations requiring sutures.Falls with moderate injuries are those that result in bruising, sprains, cuts, abrasions, or reduction in physical function for at least three days or in medical hel
Secondary Outcomes
- ADLs(1 day)
- Number of Participants with injurious falls(1 day)
- fear of falling: Fear of falling assessed with a questionnaire to determine the number of patients not concerned, a little concerned, quite concerned or very concerned with a fear of falling(1 day)
- satisfaction with the programme using a questionnaire(1 day)
- mobility :Mobility assessed using a questionnaire(1 day)