ArticleArchives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery2025
Using the Timed Up and Go test to measure mobility in non-geriatric patients after pelvic ring injury.
Article in Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionPelvic ring injuries are rare injuries that frequently are associated with prolonged recovery and low return-to-work rates. Since radiological outcome not always correlates with overall patient-reported outcome, the assessement of functional outcome has become a focus of follow up. The Timed-Up and Go test (TUG) would be a simple way to quantify patient mobility, but has not yet been adequately validated in a non-geriatric patient population.
methodsConsecutive patients younger than 70 years who underwent functional outcome testing as routine follow-up at 6 weeks, 12 weeks, or 6 months after pelvic ring injuries between 11/2017 and 10/2018 were included in this study. In addition to a TUG test, all patients completed a specific functional outcome score for pelvic ring injuries (Majeed-Score) and a general health score (Eq. 5D-3 L).
resultsForty patients (mean age 40 years, range 18 to 68 years, 24 female), ) of which 28 were treated operatively were included in the study. The mean Majeed-Score was 75.0 (SD 23.3, range 20 to 100) and the mean Eq. 5D-3 L-VAS was 69.9 (SD 22.5, range 5 to 100). The mean time for TUG was 7.8 s. (SD 4.1, range 2 to 22.). TUG time strongly correlated with the Majeed-Score (r= - 0.633, p = 0.0001) and with the mobility portion of the Majeed-Score (r= - 0.524, p = 0.001). For a threshold value of 10 s in the TUG test, the ROC analysis revealed a sensitivity of 91% and a specificity of 82% in predicting an impaired Majeed score of below 60 (AUC 0.935).
conclusionThe TUG correlated strongly with the Majeed score and the mobility part of the Majeed-Score indicating that achieved values reflect the subjective accounts provided by patients. The TUG can be used as a quick screening in non-geriatric patients with pelvic ring injuries to quantify mobility. A TUG longer than 10 s indicates an impaired Majeed score. For academic purposes, however, it should be accompanied by the Majeed-Score.
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.