Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Prof P. Lips
ORCID ID
Contact details
VU Medical Center
Department of Endocrinology
P.O. Box 7057
Amsterdam
1007 MB
Netherlands
+31 (0)20-4440614
p.lips@vumc.nl
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N/A
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
1. The incidence of falls in the elderly can be reduced by identifying elderly at high risk of falling followed by a systematic multidisciplinary examination of the causes of falling and by taking individual preventive measures (transmural health care) in conformity with the recommendations of the CBO guidelines.
2. The risk profile for community-dwelling elderly is valid and useful to identify elderly with a high risk of recurrent falling
Ethics approval
Medical Ethics Committee of the VU University Medical Centre
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Prevention
Patient information sheet
Not available in web format, please use the contact details below to request a patient information sheet
Condition
Fall incidents
Intervention
The intervention consists of identifying modifiable fall risk factors followed by an individually composed treatment aiming at reducing the identified risk factors.
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Applicable
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Time to first fall and time to second fall.
Secondary outcome measures
Performance on functional lower extremity tests
Overall trial start date
01/04/2005
Overall trial end date
01/12/2008
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
1. Community-dwelling elderly who recently fell (less than 3 months ago)
2. Aged 65 and older
3. Mobile
4. Living in the vicinity of the VU medical centre
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Senior
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
600
Participant exclusion criteria
1. Unable to go to the VU medical centre
2. Unable to sign informed consent
3. Unable to complete a questionnaire or interview
4. Fall is caused by a traffic accident
Recruitment start date
01/04/2005
Recruitment end date
01/12/2008
Locations
Countries of recruitment
Netherlands
Trial participating centre
VU Medical Center,
Amsterdam
1007 MB
Netherlands
Funders
Funder type
Not defined
Funder name
Not provided at time of registration
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
2007 protocol in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17605771
2010 results in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20625015
Publication citations
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Results
de Vries OJ, Peeters GM, Elders PJ, Muller M, Knol DL, Danner SA, Bouter LM, Lips P, Multifactorial intervention to reduce falls in older people at high risk of recurrent falls: a randomized controlled trial., Arch. Intern. Med., 2010, 170, 13, 1110-1117, doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.169.
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Peeters GM, de Vries OJ, Elders PJ, Pluijm SM, Bouter LM, Lips P, Prevention of fall incidents in patients with a high risk of falling: design of a randomised controlled trial with an economic evaluation of the effect of multidisciplinary transmural care., BMC Geriatr, 2007, 7, 15, doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-7-15.