Multidisciplinary inpatient rehabilitation for older adults with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical and process outcomes

Table 5 GRADE assessment of outcome: functional ability

Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for older adults with COVID-19 Patient/population: older adults with COVID-19 Setting: Acute or post-acute hospital setting Intervention: Multidisciplinary rehabilitation Comparison: None
Study Design	Measurement Instrument	Risk of Bias	Inconsistency	Indirectness	Imprecision	Estimate of Effect [95% CI]	Quality
- Retrospective descriptive cohort (N = 6) -Retrospective case series (N = 1) -Prospective descriptive cohort (N = 1) -Retrospective pre-post intervention cohort (N = 1) -Quasi-experimental (N = 1) -Case series (N = 2)	-Barthel Index (N = 5) -Modified Barthel Index (N = 1) -Functional Independence Measure (N = 3) -Boston AM-PAC “6 Clicks” Daily Activity Short Form (N = 1) -US Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services mandated section GG Functional Abilities Score (N = 1)	Serious^a	Very Serious (I² = 91%)	Serious	Not Serious	1.46 [0.94, 1.98]	Very Low Certainty

^aNine studies recruited a convenience sample, eight studies did not follow up patients for long enough, 4 studies did not account for confounding factors

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