Clinical and cost-effectiveness of a home-based health promotion intervention for older people with mild frailty in England: a multicentre, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial.

Background: Health promotion for people with mild frailty has the potential to improve health outcomes, but such services are scarce in practice. We developed a personalised, home-based, behaviour change, health promotion intervention (HomeHealth) and assessed its clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in maintaining independent functioning in activities of daily living in older adults with mild frailty.

Methods: This trial was an individual, multicentre, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial done in England.

Understanding how older people with mild frailty engage with behaviour change to support their independence: a qualitative study.

Objectives: To explore barriers and facilitators to behaviour change in older people with mild frailty.

Design: Qualitative study.

Setting: Community-dwelling older people living with mild frailty.

UK Foot and Ankle Thromboembolism (UK-FATE).

Aims: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a potential complication of foot and ankle surgery. There is a lack of agreement on contributing risk factors and chemical prophylaxis requirements. The primary outcome of this study was to analyze the 90-day incidence of symptomatic VTE and VTE-related mortality in patients undergoing foot and ankle surgery and Achilles tendon (TA) rupture.

Examining the Effectiveness of Telephone Clinics: A Review of a Telephone Foot and Ankle Orthopaedic Clinic in a District General Hospital in the United Kingdom.

Introduction: Since the outbreak of COVID-19, significant value has been placed on preventative methods for pathogen spread. One such method is the use of telemedicine via telephone clinics (TC). This article is designed to study TC in a District General Hospital in the United Kingdom.

Goal setting as part of a holistic intervention to promote independence in older people with mild frailty: a process evaluation alongside a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Frailty is a condition resulting from a decline in physiological reserves caused by an accumulation of several deficits, which progressively impairs the ability to recover from health adverse events. Following a promising feasibility study, the HomeHealth trial assessed a holistic tailored intervention for older adults with mild frailty to promote independence in their own homes, compared with usual care. We aimed to understand how goal setting worked among older people with mild frailty.