TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of inpatient rehabilitation treatment ingredients on functioning, quality of life, length of stay, discharge destination and mortality among older adults with unplanned admission: an overview review
AU - Lambe, Kate
AU - Guerra, Stefanny
AU - Salazar de Pablo, Gonzalo
AU - Ayis, Salma
AU - Cameron, Ian D.
AU - Foster, Nadine E.
AU - Godfrey, Emma
AU - Gregson, Celia L
AU - Martin, Finbarr
AU - Sackley, Catherine
AU - Sheehan, Katie
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship [Grant Ref: MR/S032819/1].
Funding Information:
KS received a grant from UK Research & Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship to support this work. This funding provides salary support for KS, KL, and SG. KS also received funding from the National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR) and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Charitable Trust for hip fracture health services research. CS, NEF, NW and EG receive funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). CS and NEF are NIHR Senior Investigators. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. CLG receives funding from Versus Arthritis (ref 22086). GSdP, SA, IDC, and FCM have no competing interests to declare.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/6/11
Y1 - 2022/6/11
N2 - Background: To synthesise the evidence for the effectiveness of inpatient rehabilitation treatment ingredients (versus any comparison) on functioning, quality of life, length of stay, discharge destination, and mortality among older adults with an unplanned hospital admission. Methods: A systematic search of Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, Embase, PsychInfo, PEDro, BASE, and OpenGrey for published and unpublished systematic reviews of inpatient rehabilitation interventions for older adults following an unplanned admission to hospital from database inception to December 2020. Duplicate screening for eligibility, quality assessment, and data extraction including extraction of treatment components and their respective ingredients employing the Treatment Theory framework. Random effects meta-analyses were completed overall and by treatment ingredient. Statistical heterogeneity was assessed with the inconsistency-value (I2). Results: Systematic reviews (n = 12) of moderate to low quality, including 44 non-overlapping relevant RCTs were included. When incorporated in a rehabilitation intervention, there was a large effect of endurance exercise, early intervention and shaping knowledge on walking endurance after the inpatient stay versus comparison. Early intervention, repeated practice activities, goals and planning, increased medical care and/or discharge planning increased the likelihood of discharge home versus comparison. The evidence for activities of daily living (ADL) was conflicting. Rehabilitation interventions were not effective for functional mobility, strength, or quality of life, or reduce length of stay or mortality. Therefore, we did not explore the potential role of treatment ingredients for these outcomes. Conclusion: Benefits observed were often for subgroups of the older adult population e.g., endurance exercise was effective for endurance in older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and early intervention was effective for endurance for those with hip fracture. Future research should determine whether the effectiveness of these treatment ingredients observed in subgroups, are generalisable to older adults more broadly. There is a need for more transparent reporting of intervention components and ingredients according to established frameworks to enable future synthesis and/or replication. Trial registration: PROSPERO Registration CRD42018114323.
AB - Background: To synthesise the evidence for the effectiveness of inpatient rehabilitation treatment ingredients (versus any comparison) on functioning, quality of life, length of stay, discharge destination, and mortality among older adults with an unplanned hospital admission. Methods: A systematic search of Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, Embase, PsychInfo, PEDro, BASE, and OpenGrey for published and unpublished systematic reviews of inpatient rehabilitation interventions for older adults following an unplanned admission to hospital from database inception to December 2020. Duplicate screening for eligibility, quality assessment, and data extraction including extraction of treatment components and their respective ingredients employing the Treatment Theory framework. Random effects meta-analyses were completed overall and by treatment ingredient. Statistical heterogeneity was assessed with the inconsistency-value (I2). Results: Systematic reviews (n = 12) of moderate to low quality, including 44 non-overlapping relevant RCTs were included. When incorporated in a rehabilitation intervention, there was a large effect of endurance exercise, early intervention and shaping knowledge on walking endurance after the inpatient stay versus comparison. Early intervention, repeated practice activities, goals and planning, increased medical care and/or discharge planning increased the likelihood of discharge home versus comparison. The evidence for activities of daily living (ADL) was conflicting. Rehabilitation interventions were not effective for functional mobility, strength, or quality of life, or reduce length of stay or mortality. Therefore, we did not explore the potential role of treatment ingredients for these outcomes. Conclusion: Benefits observed were often for subgroups of the older adult population e.g., endurance exercise was effective for endurance in older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and early intervention was effective for endurance for those with hip fracture. Future research should determine whether the effectiveness of these treatment ingredients observed in subgroups, are generalisable to older adults more broadly. There is a need for more transparent reporting of intervention components and ingredients according to established frameworks to enable future synthesis and/or replication. Trial registration: PROSPERO Registration CRD42018114323.
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U2 - 10.1186/s12877-022-03169-2
DO - 10.1186/s12877-022-03169-2
M3 - Article
SN - 1471-2318
VL - 22
JO - BMC Geriatrics
JF - BMC Geriatrics
IS - 1
M1 - 501
ER -