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Published in final edited form as: Health Soc Care Community. 2019 Aug 25;27(6):1375–1387. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12830

TABLE 3.

Outcome measures in included studies

Outcome/Construct	Measurement tool
Physical functional recovery	1. The role-physical of the SF-36
	2. The physical domain of SF-12 (PCS-12)
	3. Lawton-Brody Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Scale
	4. Barthel Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Index (BI)
	5. The Nottingham Extended ADL scale (NEADL)
	6. Adapted functional activity scale ‘Katz index’, including subscales from the OARS Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire (OMFAQ) and the functional status index
	7. Recovery of walking independence (12/15 at the BI walking sub-item)
Mortality	1. Assessed through databases (time intervals: 30 days, 2 months, 6 months, 1 year)
Pain	1. Instrument short form (WOMAC-SF)-the self-reported pain (PD-W) aspect
	2. Visual analogue scale (VAS)
Health-related quality of life	1. Short Form-36
	2. Health-related Quality of Life (HRQOL)
Length of stay	1. Chart review—number of days discharged