Does Geriatric Functional Rating Scale (GFRS) testing predict readmission status in hospitalized elderly cardiac patients?
The Geriatric Functional Rating Scale (GFRS) is a potentially useful predictive instrument to identify high-risk elderly cardiac patients who may need social-health services post-discharge to prevent readmission.
Sixty hospitalized elderly cardiac patients were tested using the Geriatric Functional Rating Scale (GFRS) and were followed four months postdischarge. Significant relationships were found between GFRS scores and readmission status. These data substantiate the potential usefulness of GFRS as a predictive instrument to identify those high-risk hospitalized elderly cardiac patients who need social-health services in the posthospital recovery period.
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