Year: 2017
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: Age-eligible patients are recruited if they answer yes to: (1) have you fallen and hurt yourself in the past year? (2) have you fallen more than 2 times in the past year? and/or (3) are you afraid that you might fall because of balance or walking problems? Patients are screened via postal questionnaire at 9 of the 10 sites and in the clinic at the 10th site. Screen-positive patients are mailed a recruitment packet, and those who do not opt-out are called by study staff (blinded to practice intervention assignment) to confirm eligibility, obtain verbal consent, and complete the baseline assessment. Recruitment yield [(enrolled/screens attempted)*100] ranges from 2.9% to 8.8% across sites for central screening and is 2.9% for clinic screening. Strategies to increase the yield include sending out 2nd and 3rd postal questionnaires to non-responders, rescreening patients who were initially screen negative, and raising study visibility at the 86 participating practices.
Source: Innovation in Aging
Institutions: Yale University, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Language: English
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,977
OpenAlex ID: W2728606917