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Impact of Multidisciplinary Program on Falls in Elderly Inpatients

NCT01483456 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1852

Last updated 2025-09-04

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Summary

Falls among elderly inpatients are common, multifactorial and associated with a significant increase of complications and morbidity. According to a recent Cochrane review, the effectiveness of fall prevention program has been assessed in community-dwelling and in long stay wards but not in rehabilitation wards (RW) and geriatric acute wards (GAW). IPR study aims to measure the impact of a multidisciplinary prevention program on falls in elderly inpatients.

Conditions

  • Falls Among Elderly Inpatients

Interventions

OTHER

The multidisciplinary prevention program called "IPR" (in French "Identifier, Prévenir, Relever")

The intervention is a multidisciplinary program of fall prevention including 3 complementary interventions which focus on several stages of elderly inpatient management: 1. Identification of patient's fall risk, 2. Multifactorial fall prevention program (integrated actions targeted on risk factors, exercise programs and review of the hospital environment), 3. "Get up" workshop and morbidity and mortality conferences related to fall cases

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospices Civils de Lyon

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pierre KROLAK-SALMON · Hospices Civils de Lyon

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-07-31
Primary Completion
2014-10-31
Completion
2014-10-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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