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'It Promoted A Positive Culture Around Falls Prevention': Staff Response To A Patient Education Programme—A Qualitative Evaluation, A Hill, N Waldron, J Francis-Coad, T Haines, C Etherton-Beer, L Flicker, K Ingram, S Mcphail
'It Promoted A Positive Culture Around Falls Prevention': Staff Response To A Patient Education Programme—A Qualitative Evaluation, A Hill, N Waldron, J Francis-Coad, T Haines, C Etherton-Beer, L Flicker, K Ingram, S Mcphail
Physiotherapy Papers and Journal Articles
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to understand how staff responded to individualized patient falls prevention education delivered as part of a cluster randomised trial, including how they perceived the education contributed to falls prevention on their wards.
Design: A qualitative explanatory study.
Methods: 5 focus groups were conducted at participatory hospital sites. The purposive sample of clinical staff (including nurses, physiotherapists and quality improvement staff ) worked on aged care rehabilitation wards when a cluster randomised trial evaluating a patient education programme was conducted. During the intervention period, an educator, who was a trained health professional and not …
A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial For Evaluating Rates Of Falls Among Inpatients In Aged Care Rehabilitation Units Receiving Tailored Multimedia Education In Addition To Usual Care: A Trial Protocol, Anne-Marie Hill, Nicholas Waldron, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Steven Mcphail, Katharine Ingram, Leon Flicker, Terry P. Haines
A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial For Evaluating Rates Of Falls Among Inpatients In Aged Care Rehabilitation Units Receiving Tailored Multimedia Education In Addition To Usual Care: A Trial Protocol, Anne-Marie Hill, Nicholas Waldron, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Steven Mcphail, Katharine Ingram, Leon Flicker, Terry P. Haines
Physiotherapy Papers and Journal Articles
INTRODUCTION:
Falls are the most frequent adverse event reported in hospitals. Approximately 30% of in-hospital falls lead to an injury and up to 2% result in a fracture. A large randomised trial found that a trained health professional providing individualised falls prevention education to older inpatients reduced falls in a cognitively intact subgroup. This study aims to investigate whether this efficacious intervention can reduce falls and be clinically useful and cost-effective when delivered in the real-life clinical environment.
METHODS:
A stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial will be used across eight subacute units (clusters) which will be randomised to one of four …