Falls Validation Study

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Clinical Decision Rule: The Falls Decision Rule will help guide emergency physicians when to obtain brain imaging and when brain imaging is not required.

Study summary

Each year, one in three adults over the age of 65 has a fall. These falls lead to half a million Canadian emergency department patient visits annually and falls in older adults account for more than 3% of all emergency department visits.

A rapid, simple bedside test (known as a decision rule) to guide emergency physicians on when older adults should have a brain scan to diagnose traumatic brain bleeding was created. This decision rule will be checked to see if it works well in guiding who needs a brain scan.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Clinically Important Intracranial Bleeding — 30 days
  Intracranial bleeding diagnosed at the index emergency department visit or within 30 days. Clinically important intracranial bleeding is defined as bleeding within the cranial vault (including subdural, intracerebral, intraventricular, subarachnoid, epidural blood, and cerebral contusion), which subsequently requires medical or surgical intervention for the bleed or causes death.

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