Testing the Effectiveness of a Falls Prevention System

The purpose of this single arm intervention study is to determine if the fall rate (as measured by falls per 1000 patient days) for patients designated "high fall risk" decreases with the use of the PUP™ [Patient is UP Falls Prevention System] when compared to the historical falls rate data for the prior 12 months from those same nursing units within the OSUWM Brain & Spine Hospital.

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: High Risk for Falling
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: PUP™ sock

Detailed Description

The purpose of this single arm intervention study is to determine if the fall rate (as measured by falls per 1000 patient days) for patients designated "high fall risk" decreases with the use of the PUP™ [Patient is UP Falls Prevention System] when compared to the historical falls rate data for the prior 12 months from those same nursing units within the OSUWM Brain & Spine Hospital. All Brain and Spine Hospital patients will be evaluated as to fall risk using the current fall risk assessment tool employed by OSU Medical Center and administered in the usual and customary fashion upon evaluation on the floor and Pod. Patients who are determined to be at a high fall risk will be approached to participate. Those patients who consent to participate in the study will remain in the study until a nurse removes the patient from high risk fall status or the participant has been discharged from the hospital. Any patient fall will to be reported and evaluated following current processes and procedures developed by the OSU Brain and Spine Institute as maintained with IHIS; the PUP™ as the intervention for this study will be an adjunct to those fall prevention processes already in place.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 521
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Ohio
    • Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210
      • The Ohio State University Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 18 years of age or older;
• All high-risk fall patients, eighteen years of age or older, who are admitted to the OSU Brain and Spine Hospital on Floors 8 South, 9 South, 10 South, 8 East, 9 East or 10 East. Patients will undergo a pre-assessment as per OSUWMC procedure to determine if they are a high-fall risk.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients whose medical condition as assessed by the PI prohibits their participation in the program, which would include among others the following: patients who lack the capacity to consent, patients with an anatomy or wound issue on their feet or around their calves that would bar them from wearing socks on either foot, and/or patients for whom the sock would impede medical treatment.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Palarum Fall Prevention System; The Study site, the OSU Wexner Center Brain and Spine Hospital, is located on three contiguous floors with each floor being made up of two units or Pods designated East and South. Following commencement of the study, and throughout its duration, Pods assigned to the Study will only utilize the Palarum Fall Prevention System and a monitored PUP™ sock, i.e., (Patient is Up) System as the standard of care intervention for fall prevention in accordance with its operating instructions and procedures.

Device: PUP™ sock; The Palarum Fall Prevention System that includes the PUP™ (Patient is Up) System, is made upon of seven tangible elements: an inpatient room Android tablet (IRT), a nurse station Android monitor (HUC), a local server (PLS), a cloud server (PCS), a Bluetooth Low Energy beacon(s), an Android smart watch, and an e-textile sock connected sensor transmitter (PUP™ sock). The PUP™ sock monitors and transmits pressure, force, acceleration and motion data.; Other Names: PUP™ (Patient is Up) System

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
High Risk Fall Rate	To determine if the fall rate (as measured by falls per 1000 patient days) for patients designated "high fall risk" decreases with the use of the intervention (Patient is UP fall prevention technology [PUP™ ]) when compared to historical NDNQI data for the prior 12 months ("Benchmark Data") from nursing units where the intervention is being undertaken.	hospital stay (on average 5 days)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Tammy Moore
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Tammy Moore, RN, PHD, Ohio State University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 24, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 30, 2020
• Study Completion (Anticipated): June 30, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 18, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 18, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): September 19, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 4, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 23, 2022
• Last Verified: September 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: falling; inpatient
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2018H0303

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: IPD will not be shared outside of the institution. Any data to be shared will have been deidentified.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: Yes
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No