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Falls Validation Study

NCT07536906 · Status: RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 4000

Last updated 2026-05-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Each year, one in three adults over the age of 65 has a fall. These falls lead to half a million Canadian emergency department patient visits annually and falls in older adults account for more than 3% of all emergency department visits.

A rapid, simple bedside test (known as a decision rule) to guide emergency physicians on when older adults should have a brain scan to diagnose traumatic brain bleeding was created. This decision rule will be checked to see if it works well in guiding who needs a brain scan.

Conditions

  • Intracranial Bleed
  • Falls

Interventions

OTHER

Clinical Decision Rule

The Falls Decision Rule will help guide emergency physicians when to obtain brain imaging and when brain imaging is not required.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Network of Canadian Emergency Researchers (NCER)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Dr. Kerstin de Wit

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kerstin de Wit, MD · Queens University

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-05-01
Primary Completion
2029-04-30
Completion
2030-12-30

Countries

  • United States
  • Canada

Study Locations

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