What this means
A trial is testing whether walks with trained helpers help older hospital patients recover. It is still recruiting, so no results are available yet.
Plain-English summary written by an AI model from the registry listing.
- Status
- Recruiting
- Who can join
- Ages 65 and over
- Where
- 5 sites, including Massachusetts, Ohio
The science
- Registered title
- Assisted Ambulation to Improve Health Outcomes for Older Medical Inpatients
- Trial ID
- NCT05725928 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- interventional
- Conditions
- Mobility Limitation, Frailty, Hospital Acquired Condition, Weakness, Muscle
- What is tested
- Mobility technician
- Sponsor
- The Cleveland Clinic
- Ages
- 65 Years to no maximum
- Dates
- First posted Feb 13, 2023 · updated Jun 8, 2026
Registry summary
The investigator proposes to conduct a randomized trial of supervised ambulation delivered by mobility technician (MT) up to three times daily, including weekends, to hospitalized medical patients. The aims of the study are to compare the short and intermediate-term outcomes of patients randomized to the intervention versus those patients randomized to receive usual care, to identify patients who are most likely to benefit from the intervention and to assess whether the intervention increases or decreases overall costs of an episode of care, including the cost of the MTs, the index hospitalization and the first 30 days post enrollment.
Sites (5)
- Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
- Fairview Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Cleveland Clinic- Main Campus, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Marymount Hospital, Garfield Heights, Ohio, United States
- Hillcrest Hospital, Mayfield Heights, Ohio, United States