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Table 1 Eligibility criteria of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in overview review

From: Effect of inpatient rehabilitation treatment ingredients on functioning, quality of life, length of stay, discharge destination, and mortality among older adults with unplanned admission: an overview review

 

Include

Exclude

Population

Reviews of adults with unplanned admission (urgent/emergency) to acute hospital care for any diagnosis other than stroke. Explicitly targeted RCTs of ‘older adults’ as described in eligibility criteria, or which included a subgroup analysis for older adults. Where age was not specified in the review eligibility, we selected relevant RCTs from within reviews which had a median/mean age of at least 65 years.

Reviews of planned admission to acute care. Explicitly targeted RCTs of children, young- or middle-aged adults, adults with stroke, and/or without explicit target of ‘older adults’, and no subgroup analysis for older adults. Where age was not specified in the review eligibility, we excluded RCTs from within reviews which had a median/mean age of less than 65 years.

Interventiona

All reviews of rehabilitation provided/prescribed by rehabilitation professionals:

• which include exercise

• to enable people with disabilities to attain or maintain maximum functioning at the level of body function, activity, and/or participation a

• to prevent immobility related secondary health conditions or complications arising from a primary health condition

All reviews of:

• rehabilitation involving prevention of first-time health conditions

• acute medical management/chronic health condition management unless a goal is explicitly to address functioning (e.g. pulmonary rehabilitation for chronic lung disease with the goal of improving functioning)

• rehabilitation directed at improving mental health a

• rehabilitation not within the scope of the practice of rehabilitation professionals (e.g. homeopathy, invasive procedures for deep brain stimulation, hyperbaric oxygen therapy)

• rehabilitation not specific to functioning (e.g. targeting a reduction in nonattendance rates)

• first aid, pharmacological (including nutritional), paramedic, emergency, and surgical care a

Comparison

• Usual care

• Placebo

• Sham rehabilitation

• Alternative rehabilitation

• No comparison

Outcome

Validated measure of functioningb, and/or quality of life. Measure of length of stay, discharge destination, or mortality. All measured at intervention end with or without follow up (up to 1 year).

Not (validated) measure of functioningb or quality of life and no measure of length of stay, discharge destination, or mortality. Absence of measure at intervention end.

Time

Rehabilitation endpoint of discharge from inpatient care.

Rehabilitation endpoint after discharge from inpatient care.

Study design

Systematic review and/or meta-analysis where at least 1 of the included primary studies are randomized controlled trials.

Not systematic review, primary research. Systematic review where no primary studies are randomized controlled trials.

Other

• Human

• Any geographical region

• Any language

• Any publication dates

• Non-human

  1. a Modified Cochrane Rehabilitation’s criteria for identifying reviews as relevant to rehabilitation [21]. b categorised by the domains body functions and/or activities (capacity) as specified by the World Health Organisations International Classification of Functioning [7].