NCT02305433.

Study name	Effects of long‐term intensive home‐based physiotherapy on older people with an operated hip fracture or frailty (RCT)
Methods	Randomised controlled trial
Participants	Age 65 and over for frail persons and age 60 and over for hip fracture patients; home‐dwelling but an increased risk for disabilities or for institutional care; ability to walk inside own home with or without mobility aids; ability to communicate in Finnish; in case of hip fracture: the first operated hip fracture; in case of frailty: signs of frailty assessed by modified Fried's frailty criteria 421 participants
Interventions	1. Physiotherapy (physical exercise) 2. Usual care
Outcomes	Follow‐up: 12 months Primary outcome measure: duration of time living at home Secondary outcome measures Change in physical functioning Amount of falls; Change in health‐related quality of life Amount of use and costs of social and health services All cause mortality Change in severity of frailty
Starting date	Study start date: December 2014 Estimated completion date: December 2019
Contact information	Markku T Hupli, MD, PhD South Karelia, Social and Health Care District
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