Recruiting

Falls-Risk Tool

Sponsor:

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Code:

NCT05810064

Conditions

Falls-Risk

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 65+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Falls-Risk Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Tool

Study Details

Brief summary:

The purpose of this retrospective cohort study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an EHR-based clinical decision support system (CDS) for automatically screening older adult ED patients for risk of future falls and providing ED clinicians opportunity to place referrals orders to the UW Health Mobility and Falls Clinic for those at highest risk prior to discharge.

This CDS tool has already been implemented at the UW Hospital ED, and as a QI initiative will be implemented in a staged process at two other UW Health-affiliated emergency departments (The American Center and Swedish American Hospital).

Conditions

Falls-Risk

Study ID

NCT05810064

Start date

Feb 22, 2022

Status verified date

Feb, 2026

Completion date

Aug, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 65+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Retrospective analysis will include data from:

  • ED patients 65 years or older
  • discharged from the ED (not admitted)

Study Design

Enrollment

30000 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

Discharged ED Patients prior to Intervention

Patients aged 65 and older who are in the emergency department and subsequently discharged (not admitted)

Discharged ED Patients after Intervention

Patients aged 65 and older who are in the emergency department and subsequently discharged (not admitted)

Interventions

Falls-Risk Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Tool

CDS in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) to screen patients at high-risk for future falls enabling referrals to the UW Health Mobility and Falls clinic.

Primary outcome measure

  • Number of Falls and Fall-Related Injuries [ Time Frame: during the period 12 months prior to ED visit to 6 months post ED visit (18 month period) ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Dann Hekman, MS

(608) 265-3178djhekman@medicine.wisc.edu

Locations

East Madison Hospital

Recruiting

Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53718

UWHC Emergency Department

Recruiting

Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53792

More Information

Sponsor

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Last update posted

Feb 17, 2026

Last verified

Feb, 2026

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Wisconsin, Madison on 2026-02-17.