Functional Status

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Overview of Significant Changes in the Minimum Data Set for Nursing Homes Version 3.0 — Sep 1, 2012

The Minimum Data Set (MDS) is a standardized assessment that is completed on all residents admitted to Medicare certified nursing homes in the US.

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Older Women More Likely to Have Lower Cognitive Function if They Live in Low-Income Neighborhoods — Aug 2, 2011

Older women who live in a lower socioeconomic status neighborhood are more likely to exhibit lower cognitive functioning than women who live in more affluent neighborhoods.

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Older Women More Likely to Have Lower Cognitive Function if They Live in Low-Income Neighborhoods — Aug 2, 2011

Older women who live in a lower socioeconomic status neighborhood are more likely to exhibit lower cognitive functioning than women who live in more affluent neighborhoods—regardless of their own education level or income.

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Predictors of Sexual Behavior Among Early and Middle Adolescents Affected By Maternal HIV — Jan 1, 2010

Sexual behavior among adolescents with HIV-positive mothers was less prevalent than among other adolescents, but was more likely to occur with adolescent alcohol use, lack of parental monitoring, and poorer physical functioning of HIV-positive mothers.

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The Impact of Functional Status on Life Expectancy in Older Persons — Jan 1, 2010

Functional status has a dramatic impact on life expectancy. 75-year-olds without limitations can expect to live 5 years longer than those with limitations in performing daily activities and more than 1 year longer than those with limited mobility.

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Medicare Capitation Model, Functional Status, and Multiple Comorbidities: Model Accuracy — Jan 1, 2008

Examines financial implications of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hierarchical Condition Categories risk-adjustment model on Medicare payments for individuals with comorbid chronic conditions. Some payments were underpredicted.

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An Assessment Tool Translation Study — Jan 1, 2003

This article describes the translation efforts and some of the problems that led policymakers to abandon the effort.

Journal Article

Use of the SF-36 and Other Health-Related Quality of Life Measures to Assess Persons with Disabilities — Jan 1, 2002

Evaluates the appropriateness of existing approaches to the assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for persons with disabilities.

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Development of the 25-Item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire — Jan 1, 2001

The reliability and validity of the NEI VFQ-25 are comparable to those of the 51-item NEI VFQ field test version of the survey.

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Physical and Role Functioning Among Persons with HIV: Results from a Nationally Representative Survey — Jan 1, 2000

Functional limitations of persons living with HIV affect their care needs and ability to perform social roles such as employment.

Journal Article

The Impact of Irritable Bowel Syndrome on Health-Related Quality of Life — Jan 1, 2000

Few data are available to evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Journal Article

Predicting Future Functional Status for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults: The SUPPORT Prognostic Model — Jan 1, 1995

Develop a model estimating the probability of an adult patient having severe functional limitations 2 months after being hospitalized with one of nine serious illnesses.

Journal Article

The MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36): Tests of Data Quality, Scaling Assumptions, and Reliability Across Diverse Patient Groups — Jan 1, 1994

Findings support the use of the SF-36 survey across the diverse populations studied.

Report

Measuring Patient-Reported Health Status in Advanced HIV Disease: HIV-PARSE Survey Instrument — Jan 1, 1994

Interest in using patient reported health status assessments as an outcome in clinical trials of therapies for HIV disease is increasing. This document presents such an assessment, the HIV-PARSE survey instrument.

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Development of a Resource-Based Patient Classification Scheme for Rehabilitation — Jan 1, 1993

Efforts are currently underway to develop a prospective payment system for inpatient medical rehabilitation. In this study, a clinically based, condition-specific patient classification scheme was developed that includes 33 patient groupings, referred to as Functional Related Groups (FRGs).

Journal Article

Psychological Distress/Well-Being and Cognitive Functioning Measures — Jan 1, 1992

In the assessment of psychological distress and well-being, long considered a primary indicator of mental health, two historic issues, affective vs. somatic symptoms and negative vs. positive emotions, have already been resolved.

Journal Article

Social Functioning: Sexual Problems Measures — Jan 1, 1992

Sexual functioning is commonly defined by sexual problems and dysfunction. The MOS limited the definition to include any impairment of the capacity of an adult man or woman to achieve sexual arousal and orgasm.

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Health Perceptions, Energy/Fatigue, and Health Distress Measures — Jan 1, 1992

Health perceptions are personal beliefs and evaluations of general health status. These perceptions focus on health in general rather than on either physical or mental components specifically.

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Summary and Discussion of MOS Measures — Jan 1, 1992

The MOS measures reflect the influence and contributions of many other investigators in the field of health assessment. The measures are based most directly on the health measures developed for the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE), which in turn were based on the work of many others.

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Construct Validity of MOS Health Measures — Jan 1, 1992

The construct validity of a set of nineteen of the most direct measures of health was examined in terms of the interrelationships among the health measures and their relationships to selected validity measures.

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