Features of effective hospital fall prevention trials: an intervention component analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Falls in hospitals continue to burden patients, staff, and health systems. Prevention approaches are varied, as well as their success at preventing falls. Intervention component analysis (ICA) is useful in indicating important features associated with successful interventions in sets of trial with high heterogeneity.

Methods

We conducted an ICA of systematically identified randomised controlled trials of interventions for preventing falls in older people in hospitals. Trial characteristics were extracted; inductive thematic analysis of published papers from included trials to seek triallists perspectives on drivers of success or failure of trials was conducted (ICA stage one) followed by a stratified thematic synthesis by trial outcomes, where trials were classifi

SUBMITTER: McLennan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11660957 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature