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Functional Status

Journal Article
Trends in Disability and Related Chronic Conditions Among the Forty-And-Over Population: 1997-2010
Trends should continue to be monitored closely for both groups, since younger people have not experienced the improvements of the older group, but are its future members.
Jan 1, 2014
Journal Article
An Examination of the Bidirectional Relationship Between Functioning and Symptom Levels in Patients with Anxiety Disorders in the CALM Study
Patients with anxiety disorders suffer marked functional impairment in their activities of daily living. Many studies have documented that improvements in anxiety symptom severity predict functioning improvements.
Jan 1, 2014
Journal Article
Associations of Cancer and Other Chronic Medical Conditions with SF-6D Preference-Based Scores in Medicare Beneficiaries
A large number of chronic conditions, including cancer, are associated uniquely with decrements in health utility. The cumulative effects of comorbid conditions have substantial impact on daily functioning and well-being of Medicare beneficiaries.
Jan 1, 2013
Journal Article
Refining Assessments of Elderly Patients
Significant changes to the Minimum Data Set (MDS), a standardized assessment of nursing home residents, aim to improve the tool's clinical utility.
Sep 1, 2012
News Release
Older Women More Likely to Have Lower Cognitive Function if They Live in Low-Income Neighborhoods
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.
Aug 2, 2011
Journal Article
Older Women More Likely to Have Lower Cognitive Function if They Live in Low-Income Neighborhoods
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.
Jan 1, 2011
Journal Article
The Impact of Functional Status on Life Expectancy in Older Persons
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.
Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article
Predictors of Sexual Behavior Among Early and Middle Adolescents Affected By Maternal HIV
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.
Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article
Medicare Capitation Model, Functional Status, and Multiple Comorbidities: Model Accuracy
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.
Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article
An Assessment Tool Translation Study
This article describes the translation efforts and some of the problems that led policymakers to abandon the effort.
Jan 1, 2003
Journal Article
Use of the SF-36 and Other Health-Related Quality of Life Measures to Assess Persons with Disabilities
Evaluates the appropriateness of existing approaches to the assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for persons with disabilities.
Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article
Development of the 25-Item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire
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.
Jan 1, 2001
Journal Article
Physical and Role Functioning Among Persons with HIV: Results from a Nationally Representative Survey
Functional limitations of persons living with HIV affect their care needs and ability to perform social roles such as employment.
Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article
The Impact of Irritable Bowel Syndrome on Health-Related Quality of Life
Few data are available to evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article
Predicting Future Functional Status for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults: The SUPPORT Prognostic Model
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.
Jan 1, 1995
Journal Article
The MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36): Tests of Data Quality, Scaling Assumptions, and Reliability Across Diverse Patient Groups
Findings support the use of the SF-36 survey across the diverse populations studied.
Jan 1, 1994
Report
Measuring Patient-Reported Health Status in Advanced HIV Disease: HIV-PARSE Survey Instrument
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.
Jan 1, 1994
Journal Article
Development of a Resource-Based Patient Classification Scheme for Rehabilitation
Efforts are currently underway to develop a prospective payment system for inpatient medical rehabilitation.
Jan 1, 1993
Commercial Book
Measuring Functioning and Well-Being: The Medical Outcomes Study Approach
This book provides a set of ready-to-use generic measures that are applicable to all adults, including those well and chronically ill, as well as a methodological guide to collecting health data and constructing health measures.
Jan 1, 1992
Journal Article
The MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
The content and features of the SF-36 are compared with the 10-item Medical Outcomes Study short-form.
Jan 1, 1992

Researcher Spotlight

Megan Mathews

Senior Statistical Analyst

Megan Mathews is a senior statistical analyst at the RAND Corporation. She has provided analytic input on health research projects related to pay-for-performance, quality of care, patient satisfaction, and the Medicare population. She uses statistical techniques such as propensity scoring and…
Debra Saliba

Physician Policy Researcher

Debra Saliba (she/her) is a physician policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, and a professor of medicine and the Anna & Harry Borun Endowed Chair in Geriatrics at UCLA. At the Los Angeles VA she is associate director for education in the HSR&D Center of Innovation. As a practicing…

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