ZeroFall - Reliability Testing of Optical Sensor to Detect Bed Exit for Patients in Hospital

N/ATerminatedNCT03901976

Philips Healthcare14 enrolled

Overview

Falls are one of the most common NHS adverse events. With an increasing number of frail elderly patients being admitted this risk is likely to increase. In order to be able to assist patients with bed exit in a timely manner monitoring might be of help. In ZeroFall we will test the reliability of monitoring devices to notify care givers if a patient is attempting to exit the bed.

In ZeroFall we intend to observe patients on risk of fall with two different devices during their hospital stay: The information from a no-touch optical sensing device that analyses movement and an under the mattress sensor that has already been used in a previous study at Bangor. Both are compatible with an existing monitoring system by Philips Healthcare and CE marked.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Delirium of Mixed Origin

Interventions

bed exit detectionDEVICE

bed exit detection to avoid patients fall

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: Adult patients with risk of fall more than 24 hours on the ward Exclusion Criteria: Patients with predominantly palliative needs

Locations (1)

Ysbyty Gwynedd

Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Number of true bed exit detections vs number of false bed exit detections

A reference device and two observers will classify if a bed exit was true

Time frame: 12-15 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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