Trial reportJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2013
Association between treatment or usual care region and hospitalization for fall-related traumatic brain injury in the Connecticut Collaboration for Fall Prevention.
Trial report in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Intervention to Prevent Falls: Community-Based Clinics.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2019Article
- Integrated Health Care Management of Moderate to Severe TBI in Older Patients-A Narrative Review.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2017Review
- Trends in Fall-Related Traumatic Brain Injury among Older Persons in Connecticut from 2000-2007.Journal of gerontology & geriatric research · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo evaluate the association between the treatment region (TR) or usual care region (UCR) of the Connecticut Collaboration for Fall Prevention (CCFP), a clinical intervention for prevention of falls, and the rate of hospitalization for fall-related traumatic brain injury (FR-TBI) in persons aged 70 and older and to describe the Medicare charges for FR-TBI hospitalizations.
designUsing a quasi-experimental design, rates of hospitalization for FR-TBI were recorded over an 8-year period (2000-2007) in two distinct geographic regions (TR and UCR) chosen for their similarity in characteristics associated with occurrence of falls.
settingTwo geographical regions in Connecticut.
participantsMore than 200,000 persons aged 70 and older.
interventionClinicians in the TR translated research protocols from the Yale Frailty and Injuries: Cooperative Studies of Intervention Techniques, a successful fall-prevention randomized clinical trial, into discipline- and site-specific fall-prevention procedures for integration into their clinical practices. MEASUREMENTS: Rate of hospitalization for FR-TBI in persons aged 70 and older.
resultsConnecticut Collaboration for Fall Prevention's TR exhibited lower rates of hospitalization for FR-TBI than the UCR (risk ratio = 0.84, 95% credible interval = 0.72-0.99).
conclusionThe significantly lower rate of hospitalization for FR-TBI in CCFP's TR suggests that the engagement of practicing clinicians in the implementation of evidence-based fall-prevention practices may reduce hospitalizations for FR-TBI.
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