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May 16, 2021New England Journal of Medicine579 citationsOpen Access

Physical Rehabilitation for Older Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure

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DKDalane W. KitzmanDWDavid J. WhellanPDPamela W. Duncan

Key Result

A tailored rehabilitation intervention improved physical function in older patients hospitalized for heart failure compared to usual care.

Structured PICO

Does an early, transitional, tailored, progressive rehabilitation intervention improve physical function in older patients hospitalized for acute decompensated heart failure?

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Population
Diverse population of older patients hospitalized for acute decompensated heart failure
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Intervention
Early, transitional, tailored, progressive rehabilitation intervention that included multiple physical-function domains
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Comparator
Usual care
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Outcome
Improvement in physical function

An early, tailored, and progressive physical rehabilitation intervention improves physical function in older patients hospitalized for acute decompensated heart failure.

Abstract

In a diverse population of older patients who were hospitalized for acute decompensated heart failure, an early, transitional, tailored, progressive rehabilitation intervention that included multiple physical-function domains resulted in greater improvement in physical function than usual care. (Funded by the National Institutes of Health and others; REHAB-HF ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02196038.).

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Kitzman et al. (2021) studied this question. A tailored rehabilitation intervention improved physical function in older patients hospitalized for heart failure compared to usual care.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6967e7600ea1492ff3f9b8d8https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa2026141
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