Acute Rehabilitation Initiative: A randomised controlled trial in early inpatient rehabilitation for patients hospitalised after road accidents.

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Patients admitted after road accidents; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Other physical medicine / rehabilitation; Injuries and Accidents - Other injuries and accidents

• Registration Number: ACTRN12613000203752
• Lead Sponsor: St. Vincent's Hospital

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2013-02-20
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 250

Inclusion Criteria

People admitted to an Acute Hospital as a result of injuries sustained in a road crash on a NSW public road. This includes all vehicle occupants, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians.
Aged over 18.
Willingness to give written or oral informed consent by the person or the person responsible.
Having been cleared by their treating medical/surgical team as being medically/surgically stable for the purposes of being approached by the research coordinator to obtain consent from either the person or in the event of being in Post Traumatic Amnesia, the person responsible.
LOS 5 days or more.

Exclusion Criteria

Admitted to palliative care ward
Admitted to an acute psychiatric ward (unable to follow instructions)
Severe deafness and unable to carry out a phone interview
Those without a phone or access to one
Overseas tourists leaving Australia to complete and/or rehabilitation overseas

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Decrease in total hospital length of stay (acute and rehabilitation)[Discharge from hospital]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Return to work or usual activity[3 months after mild/moderate trauma 6 months after severe/critical trauma];Functional outcome as measured by FIM & Bartel Index[3 months after mild/moderate trauma 6 months after severe/critical trauma];Psychological outcome as measured by DASS 21 and PC-PTSD[3 months after mild/moderate trauma 6 months after severe/critical trauma];Alcohol usage - screened with CAGE questionnaire[3 months after mild/moderate trauma 6 months after severe/critical trauma];QOL as measured by SF-12 v2[3 months after mild/moderate trauma 6 months after severe/critical trauma]