Telemedicine-Based Risk Program to Prevent Falls Among Older Adults: Protocol for a Randomized Quality Improvement Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries (STEADI) initiative offers health care providers tools and resources to assist with fall risk screening and multifactorial fall risk assessment and interventions. Its effectiveness has never been evaluated in a randomized trial.

Objective

This study aims to describe the protocol for the STEADI Options Randomized Quality Improvement Trial (RQIT), which was designed to evaluate the impact on falls and all-cause health expenditures of a telemedicine-based form of STEADI implemented among older adults aged 65 years and older, within a primary care setting.

Methods

STEADI Options was a pragmatic RQIT implemented within a health system comparing a telemedicine version

SUBMITTER: Rein DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11005432 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature