Physical Performance Measures in the Clinical Setting

By Stephanie A. Studenski, Subashan Perera, D. Wallace, J. Chandler, P. Duncan, E. Rooney, M. Fox, Jack M. Guralnik. Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2003

1,230 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Geriatrics and Gerontology, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Physiology

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In Geriatrics and Gerontology

1. Stephanie A. Studenski
2. Thomas M. Gill

In Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

1. Subashan Perera
2. Stephanie A. Studenski
3. Joe Verghese
4. M. Montero‐Odasso
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2. Fran Tylavsky
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Citations in the corpus

• The I.A.N.A. task force on frailty assessment of older people in clinical practice (2008, neutral): “(29,30) In a second article, the author proposed a physical frailty definition based upon measurements of meaningful changes in physical frailty in order to capture clinical anchors for prevention and treatment.”
• Normative Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Older Adults (2011, background): “Introduction Gait may be used to assess quality of life [1], health status [2], and physical function [3] in older adults.”
• Gait speed at usual pace as a predictor of adverse outcomes in community-dwelling older people an International Academy on Nutrition and Aging (IANA) Task Force (2009, neutral): “2 ms-1 organisation, HMO, and > 65 years Fast walkers >1 ms-1 increase Veterans Affairs, VA (24) Cognitively intact No mobility disability 1-year follow-up Hong Kong Chinese cohort N=2032 16-feet walk Institutionalisation”
• Quantitative gait markers and incident fall risk in older adults. (2009, methodology): “Time taken to get up from a chair fi ve times unassisted was recorded as a test of balance and lower extremity strength ( 6 ).”
• Gait Speed and Survival in Older Adults (2011, neutral): “6 77 (72-81) 57 (49-64) 31 (24-39) 88 (85-90) 75 (68-80) 61 (50-70) 53 (41-64) 23 (15-31) 6 (3-11) 67 (61-72) 42 (36-48) 18 (9-30)”
• Hospitalization, restricted activity, and the development of disability among older persons. (2004, background): “In the absence of a criterion standard, operationalizing physical frailty as slow gait speed is justified by its high face validity,(26) clinical feasibility,(27,28) and strong epidemiological link to functional decline and disability.(16,29,30) Only 4.”
• Prognostic Value of Usual Gait Speed in Well‐Functioning Older People—Results from the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study (2005, neutral): “Clinicians have not widely adopted the use of performance-based measures to evaluate the functional status of older persons, possibly owing to the perception that these tests often require substantial space or special equipment or are unduly time consuming.(1,2) Moreover, previously defined cutpoint”
• Improvement in Usual Gait Speed Predicts Better Survival in Older Adults (2007, methodology): “Those with slower gait are at higher risk for functional decline, morbidity, and mortality.(13,16,25) Older persons who walk faster than 1.”
• Evidence for the Domains Supporting the Construct of Intrinsic Capacity (2018, background): “It is noteworthy that the physical decline of the individual (in terms of increasing muscle weakness and poor mobility) has been repeatedly evoked as an “additional vital sign” for older persons (65) and a key component of the comprehensive geriatric assessment (66).”
• Meaningful Change and Responsiveness in Common Physical Performance Measures in Older Adults (2006, methodology): “Distances varied from 10 feet to 10m.(2,14,16) The SPPB score was performed and calculated as recommended.”
• Walking Speed: The Functional Vital Sign (2014, neutral): “(Studenski et al., 2003), 2.”
• Gait velocity as a single predictor of adverse events in healthy seniors aged 75 years and older. (2005, methodology): “Complementary to previous studies, which have shown that slow GV in nonselected elderly persons is associated with adverse events (5,20,21), our study provides prospective evidence that slow GV in the subset of high functioning older adults also acts as a predictor of adverse outcomes.”
• Added Value of Physical Performance Measures in Predicting Adverse Health-Related Events: Results from the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study (2009, background): “Despite strong evidence that physical performance measures play an important role in the evaluation of older persons, their clinical use is still limited.(12,13) Several problems may inhibit wider usage.”