Functional impact of ten days of bed rest in healthy older adults
Esther Clift Consultant practitioner trainee in frailty, Health Education England (Wessex)
Kortebein and colleagues published a seminal paper in 2008 that reported a study involving 11 older participants older than 67 who underwent ten days of enforced bed rest. Such a study would not gain ethical consent today.
Nursing Older People.
29, 5, 13-13.
doi: 10.7748/nop.29.5.13.s15
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