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| Title |
A study protocol of a randomised controlled trial to measure the effects of an augmented prescribed exercise programme (APEP) for frail older medical patients in the acute setting
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| Published in |
BMC Geriatrics, April 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12877-016-0252-z |
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| Authors |
Ruth McCullagh, Eimear O’Connell, Sarah O’Meara, Ivan Perry, Anthony Fitzgerald, Kieran O’Connor, N. Frances Horgan, Suzanne Timmons |
| Abstract |
Older adults experience functional decline in hospital leading to increased healthcare burden and morbidity. The benefits of augmented exercise in hospital remain uncertain. The aim of this trial is to measure the short and longer-term effects of augmented exercise for older medical in-patients on their physical performance, quality of life and health care utilisation. Two hundred and twenty older medical patients will be blindly randomly allocated to the intervention or sham groups. Both groups will receive usual care (including routine physiotherapy care) augmented by two daily exercise sessions. The sham group will receive stretching and relaxation exercises while the intervention group will receive tailored strengthening and balance exercises. Differences between groups will be measured at baseline, discharge, and three months. The primary outcome measure will be length of stay. The secondary outcome measures will be healthcare utilisation, activity (accelerometry), physical performance (Short Physical Performance Battery), falls history in hospital and quality of life (EQ-5D-5 L). This simple intervention has the potential to transform the outcomes of the older patient in the acute setting. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02463864 , registered 26.05.2015. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 6 | 33% |
| Ireland | 3 | 17% |
| South Africa | 1 | 6% |
| Spain | 1 | 6% |
| Timor-Leste | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 6 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 56% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 8 | 44% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 181 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 180 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 32 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 22 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 10% |
| Researcher | 11 | 6% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 10 | 6% |
| Other | 29 | 16% |
| Unknown | 59 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 42 | 23% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 37 | 20% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 3% |
| Sports and Recreations | 5 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 17 | 9% |
| Unknown | 71 | 39% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 October 2018.
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#2,761,546
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#714
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#45,643
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#11
of 47 outputs
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