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标题：Reporting of complex interventions in clinical trials: development of a taxonomy to classify and describe fall-prevention interventions
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作者：Sarah E Lamb ; Clemens Becker ; Lesley D Gillespie 等
期刊名称：Trials
印刷版ISSN：1745-6215
电子版ISSN：1745-6215
出版年度：2011
卷号：12
期号：1
页码：125
DOI：10.1186/1745-6215-12-125
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：Interventions for preventing falls in older people often involve several components, multidisciplinary teams, and implementation in a variety of settings. We have developed a classification system (taxonomy) to describe interventions used to prevent falls in older people, with the aim of improving the design and reporting of clinical trials of fall-prevention interventions, and synthesis of evidence from these trials. Thirty three international experts in falls prevention and health services research participated in a series of meetings to develop consensus. Robust techniques were used including literature reviews, expert presentations, and structured consensus workshops moderated by experienced facilitators. The taxonomy was refined using an international test panel of five health care practitioners. We assessed the chance corrected agreement of the final version by comparing taxonomy completion for 10 randomly selected published papers describing a variety of fall-prevention interventions. The taxonomy consists of four domains, summarized as the
关键词：Complex Intervention ; International Expert ; Medical Subject Heading ; Service Delivery Model ; Medical Research Council Framework