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Clinical Rehabilitation
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Why is there a lower prevalence of chronic immobility in geriatric departments with a high turnover of patients?

JP Milnes

West Midlands Senior Registrar Training Scheme in Geriatric Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham

DN Hill

West Midlands Senior Registrar Training Scheme in Geriatric Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham

J. Rowe

West Midlands Senior Registrar Training Scheme in Geriatric Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham

Rac Allen-Narker

West Midlands Senior Registrar Training Scheme in Geriatric Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham

Rws Brooks

West Midlands Senior Registrar Training Scheme in Geriatric Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham

HN Desai

West Midlands Senior Registrar Training Scheme in Geriatric Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham

AM Dunn

West Midlands Senior Registrar Training Scheme in Geriatric Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham

KA Hewetson

West Midlands Senior Registrar Training Scheme in Geriatric Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham

DJ Howard

West Midlands Senior Registrar Training Scheme in Geriatric Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham

KK Misra

West Midlands Senior Registrar Training Scheme in Geriatric Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham

GM Wood

West Midlands Senior Registrar Training Scheme in Geriatric Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham

There is little information available about the characteristics of patients admitted to geriatric units with high and low turnover rates of patients. It is often suggested that high turnover units do not admit the more physically disabled person. This study set out to investigate whether this view is true. Six geriatric units with different patient discharge rates were investigated. Those units with a high turnover of patients tend to admit more severely immobile people per bed, when compared to those units with below average throughput. Although these immobile people admitted to high turnover units suffered a higher mortality rate, a significantly greater proportion regained the ability to transfer themselves independently from bed to chair and to the toilet.

Clinical Rehabilitation, Vol. 1, No. 4, 293-296 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/026921558700100406
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