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Falls - Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety

CompletedNA

Sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital

Conditions: Patient Falls

Interventions: Fall Prevention Tool Kit prototype using a randomized design

Countries: United States

The goal of our project is to prevent patient falls by translating an individual patient's fall risk assessment into a decision support intervention that communicates fall risk status, and creates a tailored evidence-based plan of care that will be accessible to members of the care team to prevent falls.

Eligibility overview

Sex: ALL

Age: 18 Years to 110 Years

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Study type: INTERVENTIONAL

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

* 2 units per hospital for participation. One unit will be randomized to receive the intervention; the other will serve as a control. Inclusion Criteria: Non-specialty (medical) units and units with similar types of patients and fall rates (fall rates higher than hospital mean).
* Identify focus group/interview participants. Interdisciplinary staff members. Selection criteria: nurses, nursing assistants and other providers (12 total more heavily weighted w/nursing staff) to participate in the study focus groups.
* Patients who have fallen (4 patients at each hospital) for participation in phone interview.
* Patients for analysis must be adults admitted to intervention units.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Anyone who does not meet criteria above.

Locations (2)

Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Boston, Massachusetts, United States