Trial reportBMC geriatrics2018
Effects of 12-month home-based physiotherapy on duration of living at home and functional capacity among older persons with signs of frailty or with a recent hip fracture - protocol of a randomized controlled trial (HIPFRA study).
Trial report in BMC geriatrics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02305433 (Effects of Long-term Intensive Home-based Physiotherapy on Older People With an Operated Hip Fracture or Frailty), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Effects of Long-term Intensive Home-based Physiotherapy on Older People With an Operated Hip Fracture or Frailty (RCT).
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Community-based complex interventions to sustain independence in older people, stratified by frailty: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2024Pooled it
- Long-term home-based physical exercise, pain, and use of pain medication over a year after hip fracture - A secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial.Clinical rehabilitation · 2026Trial
- Health-related quality of life after hip fracture: effects of a 12-month home-based exercise intervention-secondary analyses of an RCT.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Trial
- Effects of a 12-month home-based exercise program on functioning after hip fracture - Secondary analyses of an RCT.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Trial
- Distal femur fractures in the elderly: Does surgical delay affect morbidity and mortality?European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2026Article
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- Preoperative anemia and total hospitalization time are the independent factors of preoperative deep venous thromboembolism in Chinese elderly undergoing hip surgery.BMC anesthesiology · 2020Article
- Kettlebell training in clinical practice: a scoping review.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2019Article
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundHealth concerns, such as frailty and osteoporotic fractures decrease functional capacity and increase use of health and social care services in the aging population. The ability to continue living at home is dependent on functional capacity, which can be enhanced by rehabilitation. We study the effects of a 12-month home-based physiotherapy program with 12-month follow-up on duration of living at home, functional capacity, and the use of social and health care services among older persons with signs of frailty, or with a recently operated hip fracture.
methodsThis is a non-blinded, parallel group, randomized controlled trial performed in South Karelia Social and Health Care District, Finland (population 131,000). Three hundred community-dwelling older persons with signs of frailty (age ≥ 65) and 300 persons with a recent hip fracture (age ≥ 60) will be recruited. Frailty is screened by FRAIL questionnaire and verified by modified Fried's frailty criteria. Both patient groups will be randomized separately to a physiotherapy and a usual care arm. Individualized, structured and progressive physiotherapy will be carried out for 60 min, twice a week for 12 months at the participant's home. The primary outcome at 24 months is duration of living at home. Our hypothesis is that persons assigned to the physiotherapy arm will live at home for six months longer than those in the usual care arm. Secondary outcomes are functional capacity, frailty status, health-related quality-of-life, falls, use and costs of social and health care services, and mortality. Assessments, among others Short Physical Performance Battery, Functional Independence Measure, Mini Nutritional Assessment, and Mini-Mental State Examination will be performed at the participant's home at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months. Register data on the use and costs of social and health care services, and mortality will be monitored for 24 months. DISCUSSION: Our trial will provide new knowledge on the potential of intensive, long-term home-based physiotherapy among older persons at risk for disabilities, to enhance functional capacity and thereby to postpone the need for institutional care, and diminish the use of social and health care services.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02305433 , Registered Nov 28, 2014.
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