Gait Speed at Discharge as a Marker for Readmission (GASP)

Karolinska University Hospital

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: All Disease That May Require Acute Hospitalization Except for Phsychiatric Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03049865

Dnr 2016/2174-31

Details and patient eligibility

About

The principal aim is to assess if a simple test, the time it takes to walk 10 meters for a patient about to be discharged after a hospital stay for an acute illness, is related to the risk of readmission.

Enrollment: 1,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 51+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• >50 years of age Patient discharged to home, or temporary short stay nursing home Expected survival >90 days The ability to read or understand the instructions and to give informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Planned hospital stay, i.e. the patient was admitted electively The including investigator is directly involved in the care of the patient