Feasibility of allied health assistant management of people with acute hip fracture: protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Guidelines for hip fracture care state that patients with hip fracture should be mobilised on the day after surgery and at least once a day thereafter. However, compliance with these guidelines is poor. One approach that would assist physiotherapists to meet mobility guidelines after hip fracture is to delegate the provision of daily mobilisation to allied health assistants under their supervision. Therefore, we plan to conduct a randomised controlled trial to determine the feasibility of an allied health assistant providing daily inpatient rehabilitation to patients with hip fracture.

Methods and analysis

Using a parallel group randomised controlled design with one-to-one allocation, participants will be randomly allocated to an experimental group (allied healt

SUBMITTER: Snowdon DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8611436 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature