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 ...

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 ...