NATIONAL EVIDENCE-BASED FALLS PREVENTION PROGRAM PARTICIPANT DEMOGRAPHIC DATA AND RESULTS

Linking Evidence-Based Program Participant Data with Medicare Data: The Consenting Process and Correlates of Retrospective Participant Consents

As part of a nation-wide study of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (National Study), older participants were asked to consent to have their Medicare data matched with study data. This provided an opportunity to examine the consenting process and compare consenters, refusers, and non-responders. We compared the three groups on a large number of variables. These included demographic, N...

VHA’s National Falls Collaborative and Prevention Programs

Falls are a high-volume, high-cost problem in health care. This article presents three successful patient safety fall prevention projects completed within the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare Administration (VHA): the National Falls Collaborative Breakthrough Project, the development and deployment of the National Falls Toolkit, and the National Falls Data Collection Project. Each of t...

Evidence-based clinical practice in falls prevention: a randomised controlled trial of a falls prevention service.

AIMS Evidence-based guidelines recommend a range of treatments for falls and injury prevention. We undertook a randomised trial of a falls prevention service to screen for falls risk factors and recommend to GPs an evidenced base prescription for falls prevention. METHODS All patients who presented with a fall to the Emergency Department at Flinders Medical Centre over a 22-week period were c...

National Program on Amblyopia Prevention in Islamic Republic of Iran

A cost-effectiveness analysis of a proposed national falls prevention program.

Falls are a major health concern for elderly people and cause substantial health care costs. The authors used meta-analytic findings on the effectiveness of fall prevention interventions to determine cost-effectiveness of a proposed Medicare fall prevention program for people who experience a recent fall. Using published clinical trial data, the authors constructed a population-based economic m...