Fall rates in hospital rehabilitation units after individualised patient and staff education programmes: A pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised controlled trial

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9987, 2015, Pages 2592-2599

  Hill, Anne Marie ^a   McPhail, Steven M ^b,c   Waldron, Nicholas ^d,e   Etherton Beer, Christopher ^f,g   Ingram, Katharine ^h   Flicker, Leon ^f,g   Bulsara, Max ^a   Haines, Terry P ^i,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c Australia   (Australia)

^d Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital   (Australia)

^e DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^g ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^h SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

ⁱ MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j SOUTHERN HEALTH   (Australia)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL REHABILITATION UNIT; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REHABILITATION CENTER; STAFF TRAINING; TRAINING; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONTINUING EDUCATION; EDUCATION; HEART DISEASES; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITAL READMISSION; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REHABILITATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEART DISEASES; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT READMISSION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REHABILITATION; REHABILITATION CENTERS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84937203773     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61945-0     Document Type: Article

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