Investigating the effectiveness of mobilisation alarms to prevent hospital falls using disinvestment: A randomised clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobilisation alarms are commonly used in hospitals to prevent falls in patients who are at high risk for falls, yet the evidence for their effectiveness is uncertain.

Objective

To investigate the effectiveness of mobilisation alarms to prevent falls in hospitals.

Design

This was a 3-group, concurrent, non-inferiority, stepped wedge, clinical trial with an embedded parallel, cluster randomised design that adopted a disinvestment approach. Disinvestment from the intervention was carried out from 1st April 2023 to 31st January 2024.

Setting(s)

This study was conducted in one private health service and four public health services in Metropolitan Melbourne, Australia.

Participants

Acute and sub-acute hospital wards with at least a 3 % rate of use o

SUBMITTER: Pu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12825039 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature