Effectiveness and implementation aspects of interventions for preventing falls in elderly people in long-term care facilities: a systematic review of RCTs.

Objectives: There is extensive literature on interventions to prevent or reduce falls in elderly people. These findings, however, were based mainly on studies of community-living persons. The primary aim of the present study was to report the effectiveness and implementation aspects of interventions aimed at reducing falls in elderly residents in long-term care facilities: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

Effectiveness of a low intensity outpatient cognitive rehabilitation programme for patients in the chronic phase after acquired brain injury.

The aim of this prospective cohort study was to examine the effectiveness of a low intensity outpatient cognitive rehabilitation programme for patients with acquired brain injury in the chronic phase. Twenty-seven patients with acquired brain injury (i.e.

A multifactorial intervention for the prevention of falls in psychogeriatric nursing home patients, a randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of a multifactorial intervention on incidence of falls in psychogeriatric nursing home patients.

Design: cluster-randomised controlled 12-month trial.

Setting: psychogeriatric wards in 12 nursing homes in The Netherlands.

Long-term neuropsychological performance in a cohort of children and adolescents after severe paediatric traumatic brain injury.

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate progress in neuropsychological performance in children and adolescents with severe paediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI), from admission to the rehabilitation centre up to 3-12 years after the trauma.

Methods: Children and adolescents (n = 31, mean age at injury 11.8 years, SD = 3.

KWAZO, a new instrument to assess the quality of service delivery in assistive technology provision.

Purpose: Currently no well validated instrument exists to assess the quality of the assistive technology delivery from the client's perspective. An instrument was developed called KWAZO, consisting of seven questions related to accessibility, knowledge, coordination, efficiency, flexibility and influence of the user. KWAZO, meaning "quality of care", can be completed by the clients without any assistance.