Table 5.
Rehabilitation Discharge Outcomes by Admission FIM Cognitive Score Subgroup
| Characteristics | Admission FIM Cognitive Score* | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall (n=2130) | <=6 (n=339) | 7–10 (n=374) | 11–15 (n=495) | 16–20 (n=408) | >=21 (n=504) | P | |
| LOS and discharge disposition | |||||||
| Rehabilitation LOS - excludes interruptions (mean, SD) | 26.5 (19.9) | 40.4 (27.6) | 32.5 (18.4) | 24.4 (15.4) | 21 (15.5) | 19 (15.1) | <.001 † |
| Discharge disposition (%) | <.001 ‡ | ||||||
| Private home | 83.9 | 73.7 | 78.1 | 85.7 | 85.0 | 92.3 | |
| Acute care hospital | 2.0 | 4.1 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 2.7 | 0.8 | |
| Other post acute setting | 14.0 | 22.1 | 19.3 | 13.7 | 12.3 | 6.9 | |
| Severity scores | |||||||
| Discharge brain injury component of CSI score (mean, SD) | 22.6 (15.3) | 34.3 (19.9) | 30.7 (15.8) | 22.9 (10.8) | 18.3 (8.8) | 11.5 (7.6) | <.001 † |
| Discharge non-brain injury component of CSI score (mean, SD) | 10.2 (11.1) | 10.9 (12.6) | 12.3 (11.5) | 10.8 (10.6) | 10 (11.5) | 7.4 (8.8) | <.001 † |
| Functional indepedence measures | |||||||
| Discharge FIM motor score - untransformed (mean, SD) | 63.0 (18.8) | 50.0 (21.1) | 56.8 (18.8) | 64.1 (16.2) | 66.9 (16.0) | 72.4 (14.8) | <.001 † |
| Discharge FIM motor score - Rasch transformed (mean, SD) | 55.7 (15.9) | 44.8 (17.5) | 50.7 (13.7) | 56 (12.6) | 58.7 (13.2) | 64.4 (15.4) | <.001 † |
| Discharge FIM cognitive score - untransformed (mean, SD) | 22.0 (6.6) | 15.9 (7.0) | 18.0 (5.3) | 21.2 (4.7) | 23.9 (4.0) | 28.4 (3.7) | <.001 † |
| Discharge FIM cognitive score - Rasch transformed (mean, SD) | 54.4 (15.1) | 40.2 (18.0) | 47 (10.6) | 53 (9.4) | 57.9 (8.5) | 68.3 (11.1) | <.001 † |
| Discharge FIM cognitive score (%) | <.001 ‡ | ||||||
| <=6 | 2.1 | 11.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
| 7–10 | 3.9 | 15.3 | 7.5 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 11–15 | 9.8 | 20.7 | 24.6 | 8.1 | 1.2 | 0.2 | |
| 16–20 | 21.8 | 25.1 | 35.6 | 34.6 | 16.2 | 1.6 | |
| >=21 | 62.3 | 27.4 | 31.8 | 56.2 | 82.4 | 98.2 | |
NOTE: Abbreviations: CSI, Comprehensive Severity Index;
*
n=10 patients missing admission FIM cognitive score.
†
Analysis of variance test.
‡
Chi-Square analysis.