Do additional allied health services for rehabilitation reduce length of stay without compromising patient outcomes?

Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This trial will examine if providing additional therapy services on a Saturday reduces health care costs, and improves the health of hospital inpatients receiving rehabilitation compared to the usual Monday to Friday service.

English C, Shields N, Brusco NK, Taylor NF, Watts JJ, Peiris C, Bernhardt J, Crotty M, Esterman A, Segal L, Hillier S.

2016-06-1623 citations

10.1016/j.jphys.2016.05.015

Responsiveness, construct and criterion validity of the Personal Care-Participation Assessment and Resource Tool (PC-PART).

Darzins SW, Imms C, Shields N, Taylor NF.

2015-08-124 citations

10.1186/s12955-015-0322-5

Is cost effectiveness sustained after weekend inpatient rehabilitation? 12 month follow up from a randomized controlled trial

Natasha K. Brusco, Jennifer J Watts, Nora Shields, Nicholas F. Taylor

BMC Health Services Research2015-04-1722 citations

10.1186/s12913-015-0822-3

Evaluation of the internal construct validity of the Personal Care Participation Assessment and Resource Tool (PC-PART) using Rasch analysis.

Darzins S, Imms C, Di Stefano M, Taylor NF, Pallant JF.

2014-11-059 citations

10.1186/s12913-014-0543-z

Are weekend inpatient rehabilitation services value for money? An economic evaluation alongside a randomized controlled trial with a 30 day follow up.

Brusco NK, Watts JJ, Shields N, Taylor NF.

2014-05-2922 citations

10.1186/1741-7015-12-89

Additional Saturday rehabilitation improves functional independence and quality of life and reduces length of stay: a randomized controlled trial.

Peiris CL, Shields N, Brusco NK, Watts JJ, Taylor NF.

2013-09-1067 citations

10.1186/1741-7015-11-198

A study protocol of a randomised controlled trial incorporating a health economic analysis to investigate if additional allied health services for rehabilitation reduce length of stay without compromising patient outcomes.

Taylor NF, Brusco NK, Watts JJ, Shields N, Peiris C, Sullivan N, Kennedy G, Teo CK, Farley A, Lockwood K, Radia-George C.

2010-11-1219 citations

10.1186/1472-6963-10-308

Interventions

The experimental group will receive standard rehabilitation from Monday to Friday, plus an additional one hour of physiotherapy and one hour of occupational therapy on Saturday, until discharge from hospital.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

No

Inclusion criteria

1. Aged 18 years or older 2. Have been admitted for rehabilitation at The Angliss Hospital or Peter James Centre

Exclusion criteria

1. If admitted for geriatric evaluation and management 2. If they or their next of kin do not give informed consent to participate

Outcome results