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Reducing Hospital Falls by Empowering Nurses to Provide Ambulatory Aids

NCT03675503 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 900

Last updated 2023-05-10

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Summary

This project proposes to evaluate the potential for nurses to assess if a patient who uses an ambulatory aid at home is fit to use one in the hospital, and the effect that providing ambulatory aids to hospitalized patients will have on reducing hospital falls, with a matched pair cluster-randomized controlled trial.

Hypothesis 1: Of the patients who use an ambulatory aid at home, patients who receive an ambulatory aid in the hospital will have a lower fall rate as compared to patients who do not receive an ambulatory aid in the hospital.

Hypothesis 2: After adequate training, nurses will be able to accurately assess whether or not patients need an ambulatory aid when compared to the gold-standard assessments of physical therapists.

Conditions

  • Accidental Falls
  • Harm Reduction

Interventions

OTHER

Fall Prevention Decision Support

Decision support used by nurses to appropriately provide ambulatory aids to hospitalized patients in order to reduce hospital falls

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Montefiore Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mary S Ellen Lindros · Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
99 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-05-31
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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