Individualized Hospital to Home, Exercise-Nutrition Self-Managed Intervention for Pre-Frail and Frail Hospitalized Older Adults: The INDEPENDENCE Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.

"Disclosure The authors declare no conflicts of interest in this work."

"This study is partially supported by Flinders University’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences Research Student Maintenance and the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. In addition, in kind support for the staff working on this project has been provided by the Flinders Medical Centre, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. The funder had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication."

"This study (INDEPENDENCE) was a pilot RCT conducted among older adults who were pre-frail or frail and hospitalised for an acute medical illness. The study was reported with the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement – randomized pilot and feasibility trials, and the intervention was described with reference to the TIDieR checklist. This study was registered with the Australia New Zealand Clinical trials Register ACTRN 12619001367134."