Day Hospital

Post acute rehabilitation: A randomised controlled trial of day hospital and domiciliary care versus Rehabilitation in the Home for deconditioned patients following hospitalisation to improve functional and nutritional status.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12605000638639

Enrollment

140

Registered

2005-10-13

Start date

2005-07-20

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Group 1: Day hospital - rehabilitation service provided in hospital 3-5 times per week for a minimum of six weeks. Group 2: RITHOM - rehabilitation services provided in the home for a minimum of twelve sessions.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

0 to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with either neurological injury, orthopaedic injury, or other medical condition requiring rehabilitation, medically stable, safe and appropriate to return home, requires at least 12 sessions of rehabilitation, sufficient memory and reasoning to participate in rehabilitation, has access to and is able to a use telephone, able to travel in a car for up to one hours two times per day.

Exclusion criteria

If consultant physician decided that RITHOM is definately indicated or Day Hospital is definately contraindicated.

Outcome results