The Effectiveness of Multicomponent Functional Maintenance Initiatives for Acutely Hospitalized Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Background And Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of multicomponent functional maintenance initiatives (MFMIs) on functional outcomes and adverse events associated with functional decline among acutely hospitalized older adults.

Data Sources: Studies were sourced from OVID Medline, PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, the Cochrane Library, and PEDro databases from inception to April 15, 2020, and their bibliographies.

Study Selection: Randomized controlled trials were included if they investigated multicomponent interventions comprising more than one nonpharmacological intervention targeting physical functional decline and another shared risk factor for geriatric syndromes in acutely hospitalized medical or nonelective surgical patients 65 years and older.

Barriers and facilitators to adopting functional maintenance initiatives for acutely hospitalised older adults.

: To determine perceived barriers and facilitators to adopting and sustaining functional maintenance initiatives for acutely hospitalised older adults. A qualitative descriptive study using semi-structured interviews and initiative observations was conducted at five international and four Victorian acute hospitals. Purposive snowball sampling was used to recruit clinical, research, managerial, and volunteer staff who were involved in implementing and/or sustaining the initiatives.

Student-clinician agreement in clinical competence as a predictor of clinical placement performance in Australian undergraduate physiotherapy students.

Objectives: The opportunity for student self-reflection and the accuracy of that reflection are critical to the acquisition of professional competencies. The relationship between student-clinician agreement and clinical performance in physiotherapy students has not yet been investigated. The aim was to determine whether a simple measure of student-clinician agreement assessed midway during a clinical placement predicts final placement score.

Compression socks and functional recovery following marathon running: a randomized controlled trial.

Compression socks have become a popular recovery aid for distance running athletes. Although some physiological markers have been shown to be influenced by wearing these garments, scant evidence exists on their effects on functional recovery. This research aims to shed light onto whether the wearing of compression socks for 48 hours after marathon running can improve functional recovery, as measured by a timed treadmill test to exhaustion 14 days following marathon running.