Can Mobility Technicians Provide Value to Hospitalized Patients?

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Clinical Trial Summary

The specific aim of this study is to determine the impact of the addition of a dedicated mobility technician to the care team on specialty specific outcomes for patients recovering from surgical treatment for a hip or lower extremity long bone fracture or a lung transplant. The practice of post-operative early ambulation has been shown to improve outcomes by promoting enhanced recovery after surgery in a variety of patients. To that end, VUMC is establishing a "Culture of Mobility". To do so, additional personnel are being hired to help ambulate patients with traumatic hip and femur fractures, other fractures of the lower extremity long bones, as well as those post-lung transplant or readmitted post-lung transplant based upon the best available evidence supporting mobility programs. The added personnel are needed as the currently available resources have insufficient bandwidth to ensure complete early ambulation for all patients. The relative effectiveness of adding a dedicated resource is assumed. Although the literature suggests adding person-hours increases the amount of mobility achieved, there is an opportunity to evaluate whether this is really the case. The goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of adding the mobility technician to the existing care team. The mobility technician will be assisting patients who could benefit from early ambulation after surgery. We hypothesize that by adding this staffing resource, more patients will get the appropriate level of usual care. Specifically, we expect that adding the resource increases the proportion of those patients who are receiving the prescribed amount of early ambulation post-surgery, with subsequent improvements in functional independence at discharge, and decreases length of stay since patients achieve readiness for discharge sooner.

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT03874767
Study type	Interventional
Source	Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Status	Withdrawn
Phase	N/A
Start date	December 2022
Completion date	September 2023

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