Reduced Step Count and Clinical Frailty in Hospitalized Adults With Community-Acquired Pneumonia.

CONCLUSIONS: Subjects hospitalized with CAP did very little walking, most of which was accumulated in short bouts at a low intensity. Compared with subjects with mild frailty, those with moderate to severe frailty took 59% fewer steps per day. Those with a higher daily step count had a shorter LOS.
PMID: 31575707 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Respiratory Care - September 30, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Rice H, Hill K, Fowler R, Watson C, Waterer G, Harrold M Tags: Respir Care Source Type: research