Institute-based nurse-led care versus home-based resistance training for patients with acute pancreatitis: Clinical outcomes analysis

Abstract

Surgeries may have worse clinical outcomes in pancreatitis. In our institute surgical procedure is barely used surgery to treat pancreatitis nowadays. Chinese guidelines recommended regular exercise for severe pancreatitis. The objectives of the current study were to compare nurse-led resistance training at the institute against usual care provided to patients with acute pancreatitis for favorable clinical outcome measures. For acute pancreatitis, patients (≥18 years, of age) received 6 months of resistance training in the garden of the institute under the supervision of registered nurses (NR cohort, n = 102), or received 6 months of resistance training at their home by themselves according to a training manual (HR cohort, n = 120) or received 6 months of usual care only (UC cohort, n = 120). Fewer numbers patients died in the follow-up period in the NR cohort than those of the HR (8 vs 21, P =.0447) and the UC (8 vs 32, P =.0046) cohorts. The frequency of rehospitalization of patients due to any of the reasons in the follow-up period was fewer for patients of the NR cohort than those of the HR and the UC cohorts (P