Table 2.

Characteristics, symptoms and measures associated with referral to geriatric rehabilitation

Demographic	Diagnoses, syndromes	Cognitive and mental status	Mobility and Functional status	Multi-domain tools and measures
			Mobility	Frailty
Age [33, 36, 41, 51]	Admission diagnosis [29]	Clock in the Box [39]	Gait speed [31, 52]	Frailty Index. [51, 52]
Sex [26, 50, 51]	Non-surgical rehabilitation diagnosis [47]	MMSE [41]	Qualitative gait [52]	Frailty Index-CGA [49]
	Multimorbidity [25, 37]	Cognitive impairment [43, 44]	Physical activity [30]Balance [25, 49]	Clinical Frailty Scale [38, 43, 44]
Living without or with intermittent help [25, 37]	Metastatic cancer or cardiovascular disease as comorbidity [33]	Depressive symptoms [25, 35]	Hierarchal Assessment of Balance and Mobility (HABAM) [70]	Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
	Dementia [33]	Use of sedative medicine [55]		Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) [29, 45]
Education [39, 45]	Vision impairment [55]	Momentary well-being [30]	Elderly Mobility Scale [44]	CGA Multidimensional Prognostic Index [42]
	Low albumin [33]		De Morton Mobility Index, toilet transfer [40]	Multi-domain tools
	Malnutrition, sarcopenia, in hospital deconditioning [26, 28, 34, 37, 48]		Functional status	Case complexity, amount of nursing care (INTERMED) [37]
			Functional decline (ADL or i-ADL) [33, 38, 41, 47, 48]	Active medical problems, living with help at home, number of disabilities, age (Post-acute care discharge score, PACD) [36]
			BI-decline 2 weeks before hospital admission, decline of Basic ADL [34, 71]	Gait, Eyesight, Mental state, Sedation (GEMS) [55]
			Premorbid activity limitation [40, 46]	Age, i-ADL, MMSE, Hospital Admission Risk Profile score (HARP) [41]
			Functional Independence Measure [27, 40]	Multi-domain measures
				Less than excellent self-rated health [25]
				Resilience [30]
				Length of Hospital Stay [25, 26, 37]

In italics: factors identifying rehabilitation needs. ADL = Activities of Daily Living. I-ADL = instrumental Activities of Daily Living. BI = Barthel Index. CGA = Comprehensive geriatric Assessment. MMSE = Mini Mental State Examination.

INTERMED is a system for classifying case complexity.