A Targeted Falls Prevention Program in Rehabilitation In-Patients

NCT ID: NCT00973297

Last Updated: 2009-09-09

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-11-30

Study Completion Date

2010-11-30

Brief Summary

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Falls are a major complication in patients treated in rehabilitation departments, yet studies evaluating different interventions to reduce falls-risk are rare and inconclusive.

The aim of the present study is to evaluate the efficacy of a multidisciplinary fall-prevention program to reduce falls and injury in stroke patients treated in a rehabilitation department.

All stroke patients consecutively admitted to the department of rehabilitation at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center for a period of one year will be eligible for inclusion. Upon receiving an informed consent subjects will be randomized to the intervention group or the control (convention care) group.

There are no exclusion criteria. The Intervention includes group education on risk of falling and safe mobility and transfers; physical therapy of balance training at the patients' bedside twice weekly and medical assessment of medication use (anxiolytics/hypnotics, neuroleptics, antihypertensives and other vasodilators), orthostatic hypotension, urinary frequency/incontinence, delirium and visual problems.

Intervention therapy will not be given as an extra time, rather at the same treatment time as the control group.

Primary outcomes are rate of falls and related injuries.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Accidental Falls

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Falls prevention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Multidisciplinary falls prevention

Intervention Type OTHER

Group education on falls risk and mobility and transfers safety; Physical therapy at the subjects' bedside consisting of balance training; Medical assessment - medications use (anxiolytics/hypnotics, neuroleptics, antihypertensives, antiarrhythmics and other vasodilators) with effort to discontinue or reduce dose when possible; orthostatic hypotension - discontinue/reduce dose of related medications; urinary frequency/incontinence - evaluation and treatment; delirium - evaluation and treatment; visual pathology - evaluation and treatment

Control group

Routine rehabilitation treatment

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Multidisciplinary falls prevention

Group education on falls risk and mobility and transfers safety; Physical therapy at the subjects' bedside consisting of balance training; Medical assessment - medications use (anxiolytics/hypnotics, neuroleptics, antihypertensives, antiarrhythmics and other vasodilators) with effort to discontinue or reduce dose when possible; orthostatic hypotension - discontinue/reduce dose of related medications; urinary frequency/incontinence - evaluation and treatment; delirium - evaluation and treatment; visual pathology - evaluation and treatment

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* All stroke patients admitted to rehabilitation

Exclusion Criteria

* None
Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Hadassah Medical Organization

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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HADASSAH MEDICAL ORGANIZATION

Principal Investigators

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Yoram Maaravi, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hadassah Medical Organization

Locations

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Hadassah Medical Organization

Jerusalem, , Israel

Site Status

Countries

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Israel

Central Contacts

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Yoram Maaravi, MD

Role: CONTACT

00 972 2 5844474

Facility Contacts

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Arik Tzukert, DMD

Role: primary

00 972 2 6776095

Hadas Lemberg, PhD

Role: backup

00 972 2 6777572

Other Identifiers

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151059-HMO-CTIL

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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