NCT02474277

How Well Does the 30-Second Chair Stand Test Predict Rehabilitation Needs in Acutely Admitted Elderly Patients

How Well Does the 30-second Chair Stand Test Predict Rehabilitation Needs in Acutely Admitted Elderly Patients?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 156 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Southern Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aims are to identify predictive indicators of hospitalized elderly medical patients' need for rehabilitation and to validate (known group validity) the Chair Stand Test

Detailed description

In the emergency department the assessment of acutely admitted elderly medical patients' need for rehabilitation is difficult as it has to been performed within 48 hours. Is it possible to use the the Chair Stand Test in combination with admission complaints and identified risk factors to predict the need for rehabilitation? An investigating of the Chair Stand Test is needed, as its validity with hospitalized patients is undocumented.

Conditions

• Acute Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	30 sec chair stand test	diagnostic test for functional impairment

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-11-01
• Primary completion: 2015-04-01
• Completion: 2015-05-01
• First posted: 2015-06-17
• Last updated: 2015-06-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark