Development of an evidence-based complex intervention for community rehabilitation of patients with hip fracture using realist review, survey and focus groups.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop an evidence and theory-based complex intervention for improving outcomes in elderly patients following hip fracture.

Design

Complex-intervention development (Medical Research Council (MRC) framework phase I) using realist literature review, surveys and focus groups of patients and rehabilitation teams.

Setting

North Wales.

Participants

Surveys of therapy managers (n=13), community and hospital-based physiotherapists (n=129) and occupational therapists (n=68) throughout the UK. Focus groups with patients (n=13), their carers (n=4) and members of the multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams in North Wales (n=13).

Results

The realist review provided understanding of how rehabilitation interventions work in the real-world context and thre

SUBMITTER: Roberts JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5652569 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature