Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders

NCT ID: NCT02475850

Last Updated: 2021-03-03

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE3

Total Enrollment

5451 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-08-31

Study Completion Date

2020-01-31

Brief Summary

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The aim of this pragmatic cluster-randomized trial is to determine the effectiveness of an evidence-based, patient-centered multifactorial fall injury prevention strategy in community dwelling older adults at risk of falls recruited from 86 primary care practices around the U.S.

Detailed Description

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Objective: To determine the effectiveness of an evidence-based, patient-centered multifactorial fall injury prevention strategy implemented within primary care practices using usual health care resources

Design: This study is a cluster randomized, parallel group superiority trial with practices stratified by healthcare system and patients nested within practices. The unit of randomization is the practice.

Study Duration: The total study duration is 5 years. Recruitment will take place over 20 months, with follow-up taking place for 24 months - 44 months depending on date of enrollment.

Trial Sites: 86 primary care practices that are part of 10 trial sites located around the U.S.: The Partners' Health Care System; Essentia; Hopkins Health Care System; HealthCare Partners; Reliant Health Care System; Mount Sinai Health Care System; University of Pittsburgh Health Care System; University of Texas Medical Branch Health Care System; University of Iowa Health Care System; University of Michigan Health Care System.

Number of Subjects: The original target sample size was 6,000 participants enrolled in 86 practices to provide 90% power to detect a 20% reduction in the rate of the primary outcome with intervention relative to control. The study was originally designed for a study duration of 36 months with 18 months of recruitment and a minimum of 18 months of follow-up. The study was extended to a 44 month study (20 months of recruitment and a minimum 24 month of follow-up). For a 44 month trial, it was estimated that a sample size of 5,322 subjects would provide 90% power to detect a 20% reduction in the rate of the primary outcome with the intervention relative to control.

Main Inclusion Criteria Community-living persons, 70 years or older, who are at increased risk for serious fall injuries.

Intervention: An evidence-based patient-centered intervention that will combine elements of a multifactorial, risk factor-based, standardly-tailored fall prevention strategy developed at Yale, practice guidelines offered by the Center for Disease Control's (CDC's) "STEADI" toolbox (Stopping Elderly Accidents, Disability and Injury) and the joint American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society guidelines, and Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE) practice change approach. The fall prevention strategies will be systematically implemented into clinical practice using: delivery system design to improve quality (Co-management); decision support (algorithms); information systems (software); self-management support (patient/caregiver engagement and activation); and linkage to community-based resources.

Primary Outcome: The primary outcome is adjudicated serious fall injuries, operationalized as a fall resulting in: (1) (fracture other than thoracic/lumbar vertebral; joint dislocation; or cut requiring closure) AND any medical attention; OR (2) (head injury; sprain or strain; bruising or swelling; or other) requiring hospitalization.

Primary Analysis: The risk of any serious fall injury (i.e., time to first event) will be analyzed using a survival model that incorporates competing risks (due to death) and clustering. In this analysis, participants who are lost to follow-up without a prior serious fall-related injury will be censored at their date last seen. In a sensitivity analysis, the investigators will adjust for the pre-specified set of baseline covariates to examine their influence on the intervention effect.

Secondary Outcomes: All self-reported falls, all self-reported fall-related injuries, and measures of well-being.

Conditions

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Accidental Falls Wounds and Injuries

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Fall prevention standard of care

An evidence-based patient-centered intervention that will combine elements of a multifactorial, risk factor-based, standardly-tailored fall prevention strategy developed at Yale, practice guidelines offered by the CDC's "STEADI" toolbox and the joint American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society guidelines, and ACOVE practice change approach

Group Type OTHER

Evidence-based tailored fall prevention

Intervention Type OTHER

Control

Usual fall prevention care

Group Type OTHER

Usual care

Intervention Type OTHER

Interventions

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Evidence-based tailored fall prevention

Intervention Type OTHER

Usual care

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* The patient is at least 70 years of age.
* The patient must answer 'yes' to one or more of the following questions:
* Have you fallen and hurt yourself in the past year?
* Have you fallen 2 or more times in the past year?
* Are you afraid that you might fall because of balance or walking problems?

Exclusion Criteria

* The patient is enrolled in hospice.
* The patient resides in a nursing home.
* The patient is not capable of providing informed consent (or assent), and a proxy is not available.
* The patient does not speak English or Spanish
Minimum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Yale University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of California, Los Angeles

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Healthcare Partners

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Johns Hopkins University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Sinai Health System

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Reliant Medical Group

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Partners HealthCare

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Michigan

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Iowa

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Essentia Health

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Wake Forest University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Brigham and Women's Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Nancy Latham

Study Director

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Shalender Bhasin, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Thomas Gill, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Yale University

Dave Reuben, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of California, Los Angeles

Nancy Latham, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Brigham and Women's Hosptial

Locations

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Healthcare Partners

Torrance, California, United States

Site Status

University of Iowa Health Alliance

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Site Status

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Site Status

Partners Healthcare

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Reliant Medical Group

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Site Status

Essentia Health

Duluth, Minnesota, United States

Site Status

Mt Sinai Health System

New York, New York, United States

Site Status

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Galveston, Texas, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Esserman D, Greene EJ, Latham NK, Kane M, Lu C, Peduzzi PN, Gill TM, Ganz DA. Assessing readiness to use electronic health record data for outcome ascertainment in clinical trials - A case study. Contemp Clin Trials. 2024 Jul;142:107572. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2024.107572. Epub 2024 May 11.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 38740298 (View on PubMed)

Ganz DA, Gill TM, Reuben DB, Bhasin S, Latham NK, Peduzzi P, Greene EJ. Costs of fall injuries in the STRIDE study: an economic evaluation of healthcare system heterogeneity and heterogeneity of treatment effect. Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2023 Aug 2;21(1):49. doi: 10.1186/s12962-023-00459-3.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 37533073 (View on PubMed)

Ganz DA, Yuan AH, Greene EJ, Latham NK, Araujo K, Siu AL, Magaziner J, Gurwitz JH, Wu AW, Alexander NB, Wallace RB, Greenspan SL, Rich J, Volpi E, Waring SC, Dykes PC, Ko F, Resnick NM, McMahon SK, Basaria S, Wang R, Lu C, Esserman D, Dziura J, Miller ME, Travison TG, Peduzzi P, Bhasin S, Reuben DB, Gill TM. Effect of the STRIDE fall injury prevention intervention on falls, fall injuries, and health-related quality of life. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Nov;70(11):3221-3229. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17964. Epub 2022 Aug 6.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 35932279 (View on PubMed)

Esserman DA, Gill TM, Miller ME, Greene EJ, Dziura JD, Travison TG, Meng C, Peduzzi PN. A case study of ascertainment bias for the primary outcome in the Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders (STRIDE) trial. Clin Trials. 2021 Apr;18(2):207-214. doi: 10.1177/1740774520980070. Epub 2021 Mar 7.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 33678038 (View on PubMed)

Gill TM, Bhasin S, Reuben DB, Latham NK, Araujo K, Ganz DA, Boult C, Wu AW, Magaziner J, Alexander N, Wallace RB, Miller ME, Travison TG, Greenspan SL, Gurwitz JH, Rich J, Volpi E, Waring SC, Manini TM, Min LC, Teresi J, Dykes PC, McMahon S, McGloin JM, Skokos EA, Charpentier P, Basaria S, Duncan PW, Storer TW, Gazarian P, Allore HG, Dziura J, Esserman D, Carnie MB, Hanson C, Ko F, Resnick NM, Wiggins J, Lu C, Meng C, Goehring L, Fagan M, Correa-de-Araujo R, Casteel C, Peduzzi P, Greene EJ. Effect of a Multifactorial Fall Injury Prevention Intervention on Patient Well-Being: The STRIDE Study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 Jan;69(1):173-179. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16854. Epub 2020 Oct 9.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 33037632 (View on PubMed)

Bhasin S, Gill TM, Reuben DB, Latham NK, Ganz DA, Greene EJ, Dziura J, Basaria S, Gurwitz JH, Dykes PC, McMahon S, Storer TW, Gazarian P, Miller ME, Travison TG, Esserman D, Carnie MB, Goehring L, Fagan M, Greenspan SL, Alexander N, Wiggins J, Ko F, Siu AL, Volpi E, Wu AW, Rich J, Waring SC, Wallace RB, Casteel C, Resnick NM, Magaziner J, Charpentier P, Lu C, Araujo K, Rajeevan H, Meng C, Allore H, Brawley BF, Eder R, McGloin JM, Skokos EA, Duncan PW, Baker D, Boult C, Correa-de-Araujo R, Peduzzi P; STRIDE Trial Investigators. A Randomized Trial of a Multifactorial Strategy to Prevent Serious Fall Injuries. N Engl J Med. 2020 Jul 9;383(2):129-140. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2002183.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 32640131 (View on PubMed)

Esserman D. From screening to ascertainment of the primary outcome using electronic health records: Challenges in the STRIDE trial. Clin Trials. 2020 Aug;17(4):346-350. doi: 10.1177/1740774520920898. Epub 2020 May 14.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 32408769 (View on PubMed)

Gill TM, McGloin JM, Shelton A, Bianco LM, Skokos EA, Latham NK, Ganz DA, Nyquist LV, Wallace RB, Carnie MB, Dykes PC, Goehring LA, Doyle M, Charpentier PA, Greene EJ, Araujo KL. Optimizing Retention in a Pragmatic Trial of Community-Living Older Persons: The STRIDE Study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Jun;68(6):1242-1249. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16356. Epub 2020 Mar 25.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 32212395 (View on PubMed)

Ganz DA, Siu AL, Magaziner J, Latham NK, Travison TG, Lorenze NP, Lu C, Wang R, Greene EJ, Stowe CL, Harvin LN, Araujo KLB, Gurwitz JH, Agrawal Y, Correa-De-Araujo R, Peduzzi P, Gill TM; STRIDE Investigators. Protocol for serious fall injury adjudication in the Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders (STRIDE) study. Inj Epidemiol. 2019 Apr 15;6:14. doi: 10.1186/s40621-019-0190-2. eCollection 2019.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31245263 (View on PubMed)

Gill TM, McGloin JM, Latham NK, Charpentier PA, Araujo KL, Skokos EA, Lu C, Shelton A, Bhasin S, Bianco LM, Carnie MB, Covinsky KE, Dykes P, Esserman DA, Ganz DA, Gurwitz JH, Hanson C, Nyquist LV, Reuben DB, Wallace RB, Greene EJ. Screening, Recruitment, and Baseline Characteristics for the Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders (STRIDE) Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2018 Oct 8;73(11):1495-1501. doi: 10.1093/gerona/gly076.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 30020415 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

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1U01AG048270-01

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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U01AG048270

Identifier Type: NIH

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