Professional Documents
Culture Documents
- Mobility
- Basic activities-of-daily-living
b) Mental function
- Cognition
- Behavior
c) Bladder and Bowel functions
d) Miscellaneous
- Swallowing
- Vision
- Hearing
2. Notes
b) For all functional parameters, what the doctor is most interested in is not so
much whether an impairment is now present; rather the more important query
is whether a change in functional status has occurred
c) If a change in functional status has occurred, related queries are how suddenly
and for how long. The nature of onset gives a clue to the underlying illness that
produced the functional impairment while the duration of the impairment alerts
the clinician whether there will be discharge issues to be potentially worried
about. Generally, a new and serious functional deterioration will often delay
discharge. Calling in the discharge coordinator early for such patients is always
important.