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    Patient education to prevent falls among older hospital inpatients: a randomized controlled trial

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    Authors
    Haines, T.
    Hill, A.
    Hill, Keith
    McPhail, S.
    Oliver, D.
    Brauer, S.
    Hoffman, T.
    Beer, C.
    Date
    2011
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Haines, Terry P. and Hill, Anne-Marie and Hill, Keith D. and McPhail, Steven and Oliver, David and Brauer, Sandra and Hoffmann, Tammy and Beer, Christopher. 2011. Patient education to prevent falls among older hospital inpatients: a randomized controlled trial. Archives of Internal Medicine. 171 (6): pp. 516-524.
    Source Title
    Archives of Internal Medicine
    DOI
    10.1001/archinternmed.2010.444
    ISSN
    00039926
    School
    School of Physiotherapy
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27449
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Background: Falls are a common adverse event during hospitalization of older adults, and few interventions have been shown to prevent them. Methods: This study was a 3-group randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy of 2 forms of multimedia patient education compared with usual care for the prevention of in-hospital falls. Older hospital patients (n=1206) admitted to a mixture of acute (orthopedic, respiratory, and medical) and subacute (geriatric and neurorehabilitation) hospital wards at 2 Australian hospitals were recruited between January 2008 and April 2009. The interventions were a multimedia patient education program based on the health-belief model combined with trained health professional follow-up (complete program), multimedia patient education materials alone (materials only), and usual care (control). Falls data were collected by blinded research assistants by reviewing hospital incident reports, hand searching medical records, and conducting weekly patient interviews. Results: Rates of falls per 1000 patient-days did not differ significantly between groups (control, 9.27; materials only, 8.61; and complete program, 7.63). However, there was a significant interaction between the intervention and presence of cognitive impairment. Falls were less frequent among cognitively intact patients in the complete program group (4.01 per 1000 patient-days) than among cognitively intact patients in the materials-only group (8.18 per 1000 patient-days) (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.51; 95% confidence interval, 0.28-0.93]) and control group (8.72 per 1000 patient-days) (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.43; 95% confidence interval, 0.24-0.78). Conclusion: Multimedia patient education with trained health professional follow-up reduced falls among patients with intact cognitive function admitted to a range of hospital wards.

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