Clinical and functional outcomes
Table 2 reveals that pathway patients sat out of bed and
ambulated sooner and had a 3.3 day shorter length of stay
(LOS) than standard care patients. The differences in the
mean scores on these variables were not statistically
significant at the 0.05 level. The rate of patients who
developed complications during their hospitalisation was
similar between the groups, although the standard care
group had a higher number of complications per patient
than the pathway group (2.33 versus 1.71). There was one
death in each group during the study period. Both deaths
were associated with other pre-existing comorbidities.
No significant difference was found between the groups in