ZeroFall
Research type
Research Study
Full title
ZeroFall - Reliability testing of Optical Sensor to detect bed exit for patients in hospital
IRAS ID
243712
Contact name
Christian P Subbe
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Philips Medizin Systeme Boeblingen GmbH
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 3 months, 0 days
Research summary
Falls represent 20% of all NHS adverse events. With an increasing number of frail elderly patients being admitted this risk is likely to increase. In order to be able to assist patients with bed exit in a timely manner monitoring might be of help.
In ZeroFall we will test the reliability of monitoring devices to notify care givers if a patient is attempting to exit the bed.
In ZeroFall we intend to observe 100 consecutive patients with two different devices during their hospital stay: The information from a no-touch optical sensor that analyses movement and an under the matrass sensor that has already been used in a previous study at Bangor. Both are compatible with an existing monitoring system by Philips Healthcare and CE marked.
We will recruit patients who are in cubicles. Research nurses will support patients enrolled in the study during recording of data.
Agreement between devices and observing research nurses will be measured. Data from the study will be used to generate hypothesis about movement patterns of patients at risk of delirium.
REC name
Wales REC 5
REC reference
18/WA/0109
Date of REC Opinion
20 Mar 2018
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion