Rehabilitation After Hip Fracture for Nursing Home Residents: A Controlled Feasibility Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study compared functional outcomes at 3 months after hip fracture surgery between nursing home residents participating in a 10-week outreach rehabilitation program and those receiving usual care. Function, health-related quality of life, and mortality were also compared over 12 months, and outreach program feasibility was assessed.

Methods

A feasibility trial was undertaken in Canadian nursing homes; of 77 participants, 46 were allocated to Outreach and 31 to Control prior to assessing function or cognition. Outreach participants received 10 weeks of rehabilitation (30 sessions), and Control participants received usual posthospital fracture care in their nursing homes. The primary outcome was the Functional Independence Measure Physical Domain (FIMphysical) s

SUBMITTER: Beaupre LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7330465 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature