Effect of Promoting High-Quality Staff Interactions on Fall Prevention in Nursing Homes: A Cluster-Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

New approaches are needed to enhance implementation of complex interventions for geriatric syndromes such as falls.

Objective

To test whether a complexity science-based staff training intervention (CONNECT) promoting high-quality staff interactions improves the impact of an evidence-based falls quality improvement program (FALLS).

Design, setting, and participants

Cluster-randomized trial in 24 nursing homes receiving either CONNECT followed by FALLS (intervention), or FALLS alone (control). Nursing home staff in all positions were asked to complete surveys at baseline, 3, 6, and 9 months. Medical records of residents with at least 1 fall in the 6-month pre- and postintervention windows (n = 1794) were abstracted for fall risk reduction measures, falls, and

SUBMITTER: Colon-Emeric CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5710274 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature