Association Between Inpatient Steps Per Day and Patient Functional Status/Disposition

Physical Medicine Clinical Trial

Official title:

Association Between Inpatient Steps Per Day and Patient Functional Status/Disposition

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03595605
• Other study ID #: 17-01792
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 16, 2018
• Est. completion date: March 30, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: May 2020
• Source: NYU Langone Health
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study will incorporate the use of wearable actigraphy devices (Fitbit) on research participants admitted to medicine inpatient units at Tisch Hospital and/or NYU Brooklyn. The investigator's sample size will be 600 randomized into two groups, with basic inclusion criteria including age greater than 65 years and pre-hospital ambulatory status. While both groups will be monitored in terms of their activity (specifically pedometer data), the intervention group will have twice daily encouragement of ambulation. Once a subject is enrolled, data will be collected daily and at time of discharge.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 51
• Est. completion date: March 30, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: March 30, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 66 Years to 100 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Admitted to acute inpatient medicine unit

• Ambulatory without assistive device prior to hospitalization

• Medical clearance to ambulate on the unit

• Active MyChart account or willing to activate MyChart account

• iOS or Android device

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients less than or equal to 65 years old

• Not Admitted to acute inpatient medicine unit

• Ambulatory with assistive device prior to hospitalization

• No Medical clearance to ambulate on the unit

• Inactive MyChart account and not willing to activate MyChart account

• No iOS or Android device

In addition, an individual who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study:

• Oxygen requirement at rest

• Lower extremity prosthesis

• Admitted for joint replacement surgery

• History of frequent falls

• Admitted for syncope.

• If patients have specifically opted out of being contacted about research (visible in the Epic header while in their chart)

• Admitted from nursing home

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Physical Medicine

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Ambulation
This group will be encouraged twice daily to ambulate

Other:
• Standard of Care
Care as usual at inpatient NYU Langone

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	New York University School of Medicine	New York	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
NYU Langone Health

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Determine how many steps patients admitted to the medicine units are taking at baseline	Steps will be measured using a wearable device (FitBit) designed to track number of steps for the duration of their hospital stay	1 Day