Impact of an early geriatric rehabilitation program in acutely hospitalised vulnerable patients: a real-life study in an ACE unit in Switzerland.

Introduction: Early geriatric rehabilitation programs are potential means to prevent acute hospitalisation-associated functional decline.

Methods: The objectives were to measure the impact of an interdisciplinary rehabilitation program on patients' administrative in hospital data and on functional trajectories. With a before-and-after design, we compared all patients admitted from January to August 2018 into the Acute Care for Elders (ACE) unit of an Academic hospital in Switzerland who received this type of program to those admitted during the same period in 2016 and 2017.