Trial reportJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2025
Implementation of Function Focused Care for Acute Care Using the Evidence Integration Triangle.
Trial report in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Interventions for preventing falls in older people in hospitals.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026Pooled it
- A Cross-Lagged Panel Model Testing the Impact of Physical Activity During Hospitalization on 1- and 6-Month Discharge Physical Activity and Adverse Events Among Older Adults With Dementia.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025Trial
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Abstract
backgroundThe purpose of this study was to test the impact of Function Focused Care for Acute Care Using the Evidence Integration Triangle (FFC-AC-EIT) on hospitalized patients living with dementia.
methodsThis was a clustered randomized clinical trial including 12 hospitals from two states and 455 patients living with dementia. Hospitals were randomized to FFC-AC-EIT versus FFC Education Only. The mean age of the participants was 82.5 (SD = 8.5), the majority were women (62.6%), White (65.3%), married (64.4%), and had 3.0 (SD = 2.4) comorbidities. Outcome measures included the Barthel Index; the Physical Activity Survey, the Confusion Assessment Method Short Form (CAM-S), the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI), and the Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia.
resultsAt discharge, both groups improved in function and physical activity, patients in the intervention group had less increase in pain than those in the control group (β = -0.58, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] (-0.89, -0.26), p < 0.001). There were no group differences in behavioral symptoms or delirium. At 1 month post-discharge there was a significant improvement in function (β = 5.55, 95% CI [0.36, 10.75], p = 0.036) and physical activity (β = 3.07, 95% CI [1.87, 4.28], p < 0.001).
conclusionsExposure to information about function focused care may help staff in acute care settings maintain and increase function and physical activity for older patients living with dementia during the hospital stay and help facilitate an increase in function and physical activity after discharge.
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