Healio: Hospitalists should promote mobility among inpatients

“’A robust literature has found that bedrest leads to functional decline in hospitalized patients,’ S. Ryan Greysen, MD, MHS, and Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, both from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote. ‘In particular, persons aged 65 years or older are at substantial risk: approximately one in three have functional decline after hospitalization.'” Read more at Healio