ArticleSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2017
Exercise for Multimorbid Patients in Primary Care: One Prescription for All?
Article in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- How to Best Develop and Deliver Generic Long-Term Condition Rehabilitation Programmes in Rural Settings: An Integrative Review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of intradialytic aerobic exercise on hemodialysis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of nephrology · 2019Pooled it
- Article
- Clinical and environmental factors, functional status, and multimorbidity-stratifying progression and prognosis of multimorbidity, frailty, and disability: the Age-It Research Program.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Physical Activity, Exercise, and Sedentary Time: Insights for Future Research in the Field of Geroscience.JAR life · 2023Article
- Personalised exercise therapy and self-management support for people with multimorbidity: Development of the MOBILIZE intervention.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Article
- Advancing multimorbidity management in primary care: a narrative review.Primary health care research & development · 2022Review
- Editorial: Poor Appetite and Aging: The Role of Physical Activity under a Geroscience Perspective.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2022Article
- Physical activity and exercise in the context of SARS-Cov-2: A perspective from geroscience field.Ageing research reviews · 2021Review
- ABC of prescribing exercise as medicine: a narrative review of the experiences of general practitioners and patients.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2021Review
- The association between comorbidity and physical activity levels in people with osteoarthritis: Secondary analysis from two randomised controlled trials.Osteoarthritis and cartilage open · 2020Article
- Physical activity promotion for multimorbid patients in primary care settings: a protocol for a systematic review evaluating health benefits and harms.Systematic reviews · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The purpose of this article was to discuss guidelines for the management of the most prevalent chronic diseases treated by primary care physicians (PCPs) in order to identify the best exercise regimen for each clinical population, and to provide preliminary guidance for primary care providers on exercise counselling in the 'real-world' context of multimorbidity. After a search of the PubMed electronic database, the 11 most prevalent conditions currently treated by PCPs were identified. The recommendations provided by recognised learned/scientific societies for the management of each disease were then examined and any recommendations involving physical activity and exercise were identified. It was found that the best exercise regimen (i.e. exercise type, intensity, duration, and frequency) was very similar across chronic diseases, which suggests that elaborating and implementing a standardised, minimum exercise guideline for multimorbid patients in primary care may be an alternative approach to time-costly individualised exercise prescriptions. Based on this finding, I propose an example of standardised, cross-disease exercise prescription, and discuss how such a prescription could be operationalised by PCPs in their routine clinical practice.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.