Falls Validation Study for Older Adults
This study is looking at a new tool called the Falls Decision Rule. This tool helps emergency doctors decide when older adults who have fallen need a brain scan to check for bleeding in the brain (intracranial bleed). This study wants to see if the Falls Decision Rule works well in guiding these decisions. You might be able to join if you are 65 or older, came to the emergency department within 48 hours of a fall, and fell from a standing position, a chair, toilet, or bed. The main goal is to see how well the rule identifies important brain bleeds within 30 days. The study aims to include 4000 participants, but its current status is unclear.
- Study design
- This is an observational study, meaning researchers will watch and collect information without giving any specific treatment. It plans to include 4000 participants.
- What's involved
- Not specified in the trial record.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Participants will be followed to see if they experience a clinically important intracranial bleeding within 30 days.
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Falls Validation Study
At a glance
Conditions
NCT07536906
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 7 sites. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
CHU de Québec - Université Laval
Québec, Quebec, Canadastudy coordinator listed
Not yet recruiting
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
Hamilton, Ontario, Canadastudy coordinator listed
Not yet recruiting
Kingston Health Sciences Centre
Kingston, Ontario, Canadastudy coordinator listed
Recruiting
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Ottawa, Ontario, Canadastudy coordinator listed
Not yet recruiting
Sinai Health System
Toronto, Ontario, Canadastudy coordinator listed
Not yet recruiting
Centre Intégré Universitaire De Santé Et De Services Sociaux Du Nord-De-L'île-De-Montréal,
Montreal, Quebec, Canadano site contact published
Not yet recruiting
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusettsno site contact published
Not yet recruiting
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- Kerstin de Wit, MD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Queens University
Who to contact
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What this trial measures
- Clinically Important Intracranial Bleeding30 days
Intracranial bleeding diagnosed at the index emergency department visit or within 30 days. Clinically important intracranial bleeding is defined as bleeding within the cranial vault (including subdural, intracerebral, intraventricular, subarachnoid, epidural blood, and cerebral contusion), which subsequently requires medical or surgical intervention for the bleed or causes death.