A Novel System to Detect Falls in Real-life Conditions

Completed

Conditions studied: Falls

In brief

Medical alert devices with automatic fall detection functionality use accelerometry to detect a fall and can signal for help if the wearer forgets to, or is incapable of, pressing the alert button. This can save lives and prevent complications associated with long periods of time spent on the floor after a fall. In this project, the sensitivity and false alarm rate of a commercially available medical alert device will be tested in a population of 200 community-dwelling older adults.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02835248

Run by

BioSensics

People needed

200

Starts

2015-09-01

Expected to finish

2018-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-07-24

Who can join

Age: 75 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Enrolled in the STRIDE Study at the Boston trial site (http://www.stride-study.org/).

You may not qualify if…

• Uses a medical alert device

Where it is running

• Brigham and Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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