If this is close to home

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  • Griefline — grief and loss counselling, 9am to 6pm weekdays and midday to 6pm weekends (AEST/AEDT): 1300 845 745
  • Carer Gateway — practical and emotional support if you are caring for someone, 8am to 5pm weekdays: 1800 422 737
  • Canteen — for 12 to 25 year olds affected by cancer, their own or a family member's: 1800 945 215
  • Palliative Care Australia — directory of palliative care services near you: palliativecare.org.au
  • Lifeline — 24/7, for any kind of distress, at any hour the services above are closed: 13 11 14

Palliative care is not the same as giving up on treatment, and it is not only for the last weeks of life. It is symptom and comfort care that can run alongside active treatment, including a clinical trial.

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Study

Not yet recruiting Not a phased study

Sources: ClinicalTrials.gov Checked: 11 October 2026 Not medical advice

This trial at a glance

Status Not yet recruiting
Phase Not a phased study
Sponsor South West Sydney Local Health District
Registry number NCT06980129
Started 1 June 2025 Today 16 October 2026 Estimated completion 31 July 2027

Where this trial is running

Trial sites and the status recorded for each
SiteCityState or countryStatus at this site
Liverpool Hospital Sydney NSW Status not stated
Fairfield Hospital Sydney NSW Status not stated
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital Sydney NSW Status not stated

voxsanity.com.au · trial sites from public registries · registry record synced 11 October 2026 · not medical advice

Who can join

Age 50 Years and over
Sex Anyone, regardless of sex
Healthy volunteers Not accepted
Enrolment target 220

The official eligibility criteria

Registry text, reproduced exactly. These are the words the trial's sponsor published on ClinicalTrials.gov. They have not been edited, shortened or rewritten, and they are written for researchers rather than for patients.

Inclusion Criteria:

* Community-dwelling adults ages ≥ 50 years presenting to Liverpool hospital or Bankstown-Lidcombe hospital with a low-trauma (osteoporotic) hip fracture who undergo surgical management

* Anticipated to return to community (private) residence

* Permitted to weight-bear as tolerated post-surgery

* Suitable for inpatient rehabilitation (i.e., requires multidisciplinary rehabilitation, is considered cognitively suitable by the MDT to participate in the rehabilitation program being examined, and would otherwise be admitted to inpatient rehabilitation)

* The presence of a carer, if required for mobility or function, is necessary at the time of transfer to the community. The carer must be prepared to manage the patient within 3 days post-randomisation. This time frame is considered necessary as carers will not be able to complete all required preparations before randomisation, and allowing an extended preparation period could bias the length of physical ward bed stay for the RITH group

* Suitable environment for home-based rehabilitation as assessed by the MDT as per usual practice

Exclusion Criteria:

* Presence of a concomitant condition that precludes actively participating in a rehabilitation program at home

* Residential location outside the Bankstown-Canterbury, Liverpool, and Fairfield Local Government Areas

* Active end-of-life management or palliative care

* Previously participated in the HITH4Hips or RITH4Hips trials

Dates on the record

Started 1 June 2025
Estimated completion 31 July 2027
Registry last updated 20 May 2025
Checked by Voxsanity 11 October 2026

Results, publications and the official record

Sources and dates

  • ClinicalTrials.gov – the record this page reformats
  • ClinicalTrials.gov processing date: 20 May 2025.
  • This page last checked by Voxsanity: 11 October 2026.

Voxsanity reformats data from public registries into this layout. It does not edit, interpret or add to what the registry published.

Not medical advice.

Individual trial records are refreshed on a rolling basis rather than all at once, so a record may be up to several weeks old. Each trial page and trial card shows the date its own record was last synced. Where a record has lagged, its status, sites and enrolment can differ from the current registry state in either direction, so check the registry link on the trial page before acting on them.

Letter for your doctor

A one-page summary of this trial to print or email to your GP. It carries the registry's own record of the trial and its eligibility criteria, and nothing Voxsanity has written about whether it suits you.