Support and Assessment for Fall Emergency Referrals (SAFER 1) trial protocol. Computerised on-scene decision support for emergency ambulance staff to assess and plan care for o/lder people who have fallen: Evaluation of costs and benefits using a pragmatic cluster randomised trial

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Snooks, Helen ^a   Cheung, Wai Yee ^a   Close, Jacqueline ^b   Dale, Jeremy ^c   Gaze, Sarah ^a   Humphreys, Ioan ^a   Lyons, Ronan ^a   Mason, Suzanne ^d   Merali, Yasmin ^e   Peconi, Julie ^a   Phillips, Ceri ^a   Phillips, Judith ^a   Roberts, Stephen ^a   Russell, Ian ^a   Sánchez, Antonio ^a   Wani, Mushtaq ^f   Wells, Bridget ^a   Whitfield, Richard ^g  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^f MORRISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g WELSH AMBULANCE SERVICES NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY CARE; FALLING; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MICROCOMPUTER; MORTALITY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED KINGDOM; AMBULANCE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVAL;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; AMBULANCES; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOFTWARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77349099730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-10-2     Document Type: Article

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