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Enhanced Medical Rehabilitation for Disablement

NCT00951691 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 25

Last updated 2014-03-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will develop and test a new program of enhanced medical rehabilitation for elderly people who have had an acute disabling medical event and are admitted to a skilled nursing facility for post-acute rehabilitation.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Enhanced acute medical rehabilitation

Daily up to 3-hour sessions of enhanced physical and occupational therapies (see Lenze et al, "Enhanced Medical Rehabilitation Increases Therapy Intensity and Engagement and Improves Functional Outcomes in Postacute Rehabilitation of Older Adults: A Randomized-Controlled Trial." J American Medical Director's Association, 2012 for details and outcome data.

BEHAVIORAL

Treatment as usual

Standard treatment with physical and occupational therapies

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Washington University School of Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Eric J Lenze, MD · Washington University School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-08-31
Primary Completion
2012-01-31
Completion
2012-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Entities

Diseases

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