Identifying Clinically Relevant Functional Strata to Direct Mobility Preservation Among Patients Hospitalized With Medical Conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop a system to guide interpretation of scores generated from the newly developed item response theory (IRT)-based Functional Assessment in Acute Care Multidimensional Computerized Adaptive Test (FAMCAT), which assesses 3 important domains of function: Mobility, Daily Activities, and Applied Cognition.

Design

Cross-sectional data was used to inform a modified Delphi approach to establish FAMCAT cutpoints delineating various functional ability levels.

Setting

Large midwestern academic teaching hospital.

Participants

Patients hospitalized to an inpatient medical service (N=2049).

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main outcome measures

FAMCAT Basic Mobility, Daily Activity, and Applied Cognition scores.

Results

IRT-based score est

SUBMITTER: Marfeo E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8767567 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature