Outcomes in randomized controlled trials of exercise interventions in solid organ transplant

作     者：Tania Janaudis-Ferreira Sunita Mathur Stacey Konidis Catherine M Tansey Cecile Beaurepaire 

作者机构：Canadian National Transplant Research Program School of Physical and Occupational Therapy McGill University Department of Physical Therapy University of Toronto 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Transplantation》 (世界移植杂志)

年 卷 期：2016年第6卷第4期

页      面：774-789页

学科分类：10[医学] 

主　　题：Solid organ transplantation Systematic review Rehabilitation Exercise Outcome measures International Classification of Functioning,Disability and Health 

摘      要：AIM To identify the outcome measures that have been used in randomized controlled trials(RCTs) of exercise training in solid organ transplant(SOT) recipients and to link these outcomes to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health(ICF) *** Electronic literature searches of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane, Scopus, and Web of Science were performed. We sought RCTs that investigated the effect of exercise training in SOT recipients. Reference lists of all eligible publications were searched for other appropriate studies not identified by the electronic search. A complete list of outcome measures used in the RCTs was generated and each of these was linked to an ICF *** Four hundred and thirteen articles were retrieved, of which 35 met our inclusion criteria. The studies included were designed to compare the effects of exercise training programs to usual care or to another exercise training program and reported on recipients of heart(n = 21), kidney(n = 9), lung(n = 3) or liver(n = 2) transplant. Of the 126 outcome measures identified, 62 were used as primary outcome measures. The most commonly occurring primary outcomes were aerobic capacity using the peak VO2(n = 13), quality of life using the shortform-36(n = 8), and muscle strength(n = 7). Theseoutcome measures were linked to 113 ICF categories and the majority of outcomes fall into the body function domain(n = 93). CONCLUSION There is little standardization in outcome measures used in RCTs of exercise interventions in SOT recipients. The ICF framework can be used to select a core set of outcomes that cross all domains of ICF and that would be appropriate to all SOT recipients.