Observational studyArchives of physical medicine and rehabilitation2024
Defining Clinically Meaningful Cut Points for Leg Power Impairment Using Physical Performance in Older Adults: A Secondary Analysis From Boston RISE.
Observational study in Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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
3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.
- Author response to OSIN-D-26-00532: self-paced stair climb and handrail use may mask links to injurious falls.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2026Article
- Low relative sit-to-stand power is associated with history of falls and fractures, prospective hospitalization, and all-cause mortality in older adults from the Toledo study for healthy aging.Journal of sport and health science · 2025Article
- Wearable-Sensor-Instrumented Assessment of Prolonged Walking Identifies Performance Deficits in Older Adults With Normal Clinical Presentation.Journal of geriatric physical therapy (2001)Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveTo identify clinically meaningful thresholds of leg power impairment identified by the stair climb power test (SCPT).
designCross-sectional analysis using the baseline data from an observational cohort study.
settingThe Boston Rehabilitative Impairment Study of the Elderly.
participantsCommunity-dwelling older adults (N=413).
main outcome measuresSCPT and the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB).
resultsUsing the receiver operating characteristic curves and Youden's J statistics, the optimal threshold for the SCPT associated with mobility limitation as defined by an SPPB score ≤9 was 3.07 Watts/kg for men with a sensitivity of 74%, a specificity of 73% and, an area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.78. For women, the optimal threshold was 2.59 Watts/kg with a sensitivity of 83%, a specificity of 69%, and an AUC value of 0.81. The classification and regression tree sensitivity analysis demonstrated similar thresholds, 2.88 Watts/kg and 2.53 Watts/kg for men and women, respectively.
conclusionsThe study identified clinically meaningful thresholds of impairment for the SCPT for mobility limited older primary care patients. These thresholds may be used to inform rehabilitation care to improve functional mobility of older adults and should be validated in larger more representative clinical trials.
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.