Effectiveness of a multifactorial intervention for dizziness in older people in primary care: A cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Dizziness is common in older people. Physicians are often unable to identify a specific cause for dizziness in older people, even after an extensive diagnostic work-up. A prognosis-oriented approach, i.e. treating modifiable risk factors for an unfavourable course of dizziness, may reduce dizziness-related impairment in older people in primary care.

Design

Cluster randomized controlled trial.

Setting

45 primary care practices in The Netherlands.

Participants

168 participants aged ≥65y who consulted their general practitioner for dizziness and experienced significant dizziness-related impairment (Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) ≥30). Participants were part of to the intervention group (n = 83) or control group (n = 85), depending on whether they we

SUBMITTER: Stam H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6178383 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature