We thank Tsuge and colleagues for their interest in our study and for their contribution
to understanding the role of early mobilization in acute cardiac care.
1
The emerging evidence for early mobilization in the acute cardiac setting is promising.
However, the current evidence base, including our current study, is mainly observational
or retrospective in nature and is thus subject to the corresponding biases.
2
To address potential biases in our study, we included consecutive admissions to the
cardiac intensive care unit, compared consecutive time periods (pre- and postintervention),
and adjusted for potential confounders, including admission for heart failure. The
intervention group had a higher rate of primary admission for heart failure, which
is associated with older age and higher levels of frailty, than the usual mobility
care group (15% vs 11%, respectively) yet still had a higher rate of discharge home.
Nonetheless, we acknowledge that unmeasured confounders inherent to the study methodology
may have affected our results. There remains a strong unmet need for high-quality,
multicentre randomized studies to explore whether early mobilization in acute cardiovascular
care improves clinical and person-centred outcomes.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Publication history
Published online: April 29, 2021
Accepted:
April 22,
2021
Received:
April 21,
2021
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