Targeted individual exercise programmes for older medical patients are feasible, and may change hospital and patient outcomes: a service improvement project.

In a previous pilot randomised controlled trial, patients considered at risk of functional decline (based on the clinical discretion of the treating physiotherapist) who received individually prescribed exercise programs, showed a trend towards decreased length of stay (on average 2.91 days shorter from enrolment in the study) although there was a prolonged delay in commencing exercises [ 9 ] possibly suggesting that the intervention was rehabilitative rather than preventive in nature.

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