Appendix Figure 1.

Patients Reporting Functional Decline Over Time Periods (n = 898)

(a) Admission to discharge; (b) Admission to one month after discharge; (c) One month before admission to discharge; (d) One month before admission to one month after discharge

*Patients experiencing functional decline [emergence of deficits in 1 or more Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)] in given time period, n (%)

†Patients experiencing catastrophic functional decline are in italics (emergence of deficits in 3 or more ADLs) in given time period, n (%)

‡At inpatient interview, patients were asked to retrospectively recall their functional status one month prior to admission

§At post-discharge phone survey, patients were asked to retrospectively recall their functional status at the time of discharge from the hospital