Table 2.
Intention to treat: physical ability scores 10 days after hip fracture surgery compared in a restrictive transfusion group with a liberal group stratified in residents from nursing homes and sheltered housing and analyzed with Wilcoxon rank-sum test
| All residents (n = 284) |
Nursing homes (n = 179) |
Sheltered housing (n = 105) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical ability 10 days after surgery | Restrictive strategy (n = 144) | Liberal strategy (n = 140) | p-value | Restrictive strategy (n = 89) | Liberal strategy (n = 90) | p-value | Restrictive strategy (n = 55) | Liberal strategy (n = 50) | p-value |
| Modified Barthel indexa (%) | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.0 | ||||||
| Independent or moderately dependent | 38 (26) | 32 (23) | 18 (20) | 15 (17) | 20 (36) | 17 (34) | |||
| Substantially dependent | 51 (35) | 58 (41) | 24 (27) | 33 (37) | 27 (49) | 25 (50) | |||
| Completely dependent | 55 (38) | 50 (36) | 47 (53) | 42 (46) | 8 (15) | 8 (16) | |||
| New Mobility scoreb median (IQR) | 1 (0–1) | 1 (0–1) | 0.5 | 1 (0–1) | 1 (0–1) | 0.8 | 1 (1–2) | 1 (1–2) | 0.5 |
| Cumulated ambulation scorec (%) | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
| Walking ability | 19 (13) | 16 (11) | 4 (4) | 8 (9) | 16 (29) | 7 (14) | |||
| Sit-to-stand-to-sit | 65 (45) | 74 (53) | 37 (42) | 40 (44) | 30 (55) | 34 (68) | |||
| Bedridden | 56 (39) | 50 (36) | 48 (54) | 42 (47) | 9 (16) | 9 (18) | |||
| Transfer from bed to chair (%) | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.2 | ||||||
| Independent | 25 (17) | 19 (14) | 10 (11) | 11 (12) | 15 (27) | 8 (16) | |||
| Dependent | 119 (83) | 121 (86) | 79 (89) | 79 (88) | 40 (73) | 42 (84) | |||
| Walking ability (%) | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.7 | ||||||
| Independent | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |||
| Walking aids | 25 (17) | 25 (18) | 7 (8) | 12 (13) | 18 (33) | 13 (26) | |||
| Person support | 59 (41) | 66 (47) | 33 (37) | 38 (42) | 26 (47) | 28 (56) | |||
| None | 59 (41) | 48 (34) | 48 (54) | 39 (43) | 11 (20) | 9 (18) | |||
a
Modified Barthel index score categories: “Independent/moderately dependent” in activities of daily living (ADL) (summed score: 100–50);
“Substantially dependent” in ADL (summed score: 49–25); and “Completely dependent” in ADL (summed score: 24–0).
b
New Mobility score categories (9 = best, 0 = worst): “High level” (summed score 9–6); “Low level” (summed score 5–0).
c
Cumulated ambulation score categories (6 = best, 0 = worst): “Independence” (summed score: 6); “Dependency” (summed score: 5–0).