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Table 1 Reasons for ineligibility for Functional Maintenance Program

From: Targeted individual exercise programmes for older medical patients are feasible, and may change hospital and patient outcomes: a service improvement project

Reason for ineligibility

%

Number (n =)

Non-ambulatory

0%

3

Notes not available

0%

4

Requiring psychiatric intervention

1%

8

Deceased

1%

11

Non English Speaking

2%

17

Palliative

2%

19

Dementia

2%

20

Transferred to ICCU

2%

22

Transferred to another hospital

2%

24

Unco-operative

3%

29

Medically unstable

4%

42

Diagnosis contraindicates FMP

4%

43

Transferred under another unit

5%

51

Documented to be D/C within 24 hrs

5%

55

Low risk of functional decline

8%

78

Not referred to physiotherapy

10%

101

High Level Care

11%

109

Discharged prior to screening

16%

165

TOTAL

78%

801