Table 2.
Mean Short Functional Status (SFS) Survey Scores Pre- and Post-Injury
| Geriatric Consult (GC) group (n=85) |
Control Group (n=37) | Unadjusted Difference in Decline §§ |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Post- injury time-point |
Sample (N) |
Pre- injury |
Post- injury |
Sample (N) |
Pre- injury§ |
Post- injury |
Estimate | 95% CI | |
| 3 months | 74 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 12 | 4.8 | 3.7 | .12 | −.92 | 1.2 |
| 6 months | 70 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 17 | 4.7 | 3.8 | −.26 | −.98 | .46 |
| 12 months | 57 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 35 | 4.7 | 3.3 | −.57 | −1.2 | 0.5 |
§
Baseline ADL count for control group was predicted using age, gender, ethnicity, co-morbidity, marital status, pre-injury living situation, and self-reported degree of recovery (using poisson regression of ADL count).
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Interpretation of the difference between GC decline (follow-up minus pre-injury SFS) and control group decline (follow up minus pre-injury SFS): a negative result indicates that the GC group outcome had less decline, expressed in units of count of ADL abilities.