An observational study in In-hospital Falls, sponsored by Rennes University Hospital. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-12-19.
Sponsored by Rennes University Hospital · Observational
Anticoagulant and antiplatelet treatments have well defined indactions, with a clearly proved benefit, respectivly for prevention of arterial and venous emblism and for prevention of athermo-related arterial thrombosis.
Bleeding risk represents the main adverse effect of these antithrombotic medications. Then benefit-risk ratio is sometimes difficult to evaluate, especially for elderly patients prone to fall (incidence of falls estimated to 30% per year for patients over 65), exposed on the one hand to thromboembolic risk and on the other hand to bleeding risk.
Associations between falls and antithrombotic-related bleeding risk had already been evaluated in several studies :
Thus, the purpose of this study is to specify whether occurrence of falls justify to reconsider prescription of antithrombotic treatments in patients having an indication of antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy.
Retrospective, descriptive and non-interventional study over a period of 12 months (from 01/01/2017 to 31/12/2017), from unwanted events database of Rennes University Hospital.
Patients meeting criterias receive an information mail. Without opposition over a period of 3 weeks, datas will be treated, focusing on the event and its consequencies until hospital outing.
Baseline characteristics :
Description of fall-related bleeding events rate (until hospital outing) according to the severity :
Modification of the antithrombotic prescription in the aftermath of the fall :
Sub-group analysis for each previous item, according to undergoing antithrombotic treatment at the moment of the fall :
Rennes University Hospital is the lead sponsor of 440 studies on the registry; 51 are open to participants now.
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Hospitalized patients in internal medicine unit for whom an in-hospital fall was reported
Exclusion Criteria:
Any-severity fall-related hemorrhagic events rate
All reported hemorrhagic events after a fall
Time frame: The inclusion day
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