Functional status after colon cancer surgery in elderly nursing home residents.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine functional status and mortality rates after colon cancer surgery in older nursing home residents.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Nursing homes in the United States.

Participants

Six thousand eight hundred twenty-two nursing home residents aged 65 and older who underwent surgery for colon cancer in the United States between 1999 and 2005.

Measurements

Changes in functional status were assessed before and after surgery using the Minimum Data Set Activity of Daily Living (MDS-ADL) summary scale, a 28-point scale in which score increases as functional dependence increases. Regression techniques were used to identify patient characteristics associated with mortality and functional decline 1 year after surgery.

Results

SUBMITTER: Finlayson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4497557 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature