Help Optimise and Mobilise Elders (H.O.M.E)
During hospitalisations, older inpatients commonly face issues such as immobility, loss of independence, and functional decline. This leads them down the cascade of dependency with consequent increased risk of adverse outcomes, institutionalisation as well as higher post-acute care costs. The investigators hypothesize that by implementing a mobility intervention in the inpatient setting, patients would be able to maintain their function upon discharge and avoid the cascade of dependency. As such, the investigators aim to do this by implementing and evaluating a mobility intervention, while optimising reversible factors affecting mobility among inpatients admitted to a geriatric unit in Singapore. The investigators will also examine the cost impact of a mobility focused model of care and also adopt the effectiveness-implementation hybrid Type 2 design where both effectiveness and implementation spheres are tested simultaneously.
Continuous Local Anaesthetic Wound Infusion (CLoWI) Versus PCA Morphine for Pain Control After Major Abdominal Surgery:A Double Blinded, Randomized, Controlled, Non Inferiority Trial (CLoWI Trial)
Major abdominal surgery is associated with significant complications which may lead to morbidity and mortality. Pain experienced after surgery affects the recovery from surgery.
Our study aims to evaluate the current gold standard of PCA morphine infusion against a continuous wound infusion (CLoWI). The use of CLoWI negates the side-effects of opioids, and will be the first randomised controlled trial to compare PCA (Morphine) with CLoWI-LA (Ropivacaine).
Combining Two Commonly Adopted Nutrition Instruments in the Critical Care Setting is Superior to Administering Either One Alone
There are two nutrition assessment tools that are commonly used in the ICU, namely the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) and Modified Nutrition Risk in Critically Ill Score (mNUTRIC). It has been proposed that both assessments should be performed in the ICU but their combined prognostic ability has not been adequately assessed.
This study aimed to: 1) determine the agreement between SGA and mNUTRIC scores, and 2) quantify their utility in discriminating and quantifying hospital mortality risk both independently and in combination.
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