Functional status is an important predictor of an acute care readmission in patients who have had a unilateral hip fracture. Objectives: To test whether functional status is a robust predictor of ...
The Government Accountability Office flirted with the idea of requiring functional status information—such as whether patients could independently perform routine tasks such as bathing or dressing—in ...
Correspondence to Dr Jacqueline Josee van Ierssel, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, ON K1H 5B2, Canada; JMinnes{at}cheo.on.ca While most adults fully recover from ...
The functional mobility of the elderly is a very important factor in aging research, and prognostic information is valuable in making clinical and health care policy decisions. We develop a predictive ...
Among a Medicare population, use of 3 self-reported health items improves predicted inpatient admissions and healthcare costs when used with risk-prediction model. We used data from a Health Status ...