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Comparing activities of daily living assessment instruments
— FIM, MDS, OASIS, MDS-PAC | | Author(s) | Joan C Rogers, Sharon M Green Gwinn, Margo B Holm |
| Journal title | Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, vol 18, no 3, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 1-26 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Service, The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Evaluation ; Comparison ; Physiotherapists ; Occupational therapists. |
| Annotation | Occupational therapy and physical therapy practitioners are frequently required to contribute to the Functional Independence Measure Instrument (FIM), the Minimum Data Set for Long Term Care (MDS), the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), or the Minimum Data Set for Post-Acute Care (MDS-PAC) to determine their clients' level of functioning in daily living activities (ADLs). As these instruments are used to qualify clients for services, their accurate completion is critical to optimal healthcare. This analysis, which compared and contrasted the four instruments, revealed usage of dissimilar terms, definitions, and measurement scales. Practitioners working in rehabilitation, skilled nursing facilities, home healthcare and post-acute care have an ethical responsibility to understand the similarities and differences between these instruments, so that they can rate clients' functioning accurately and expeditiously. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010807206 A |
| Classmark | CA: C4: 4C: 48: QTM: QTR |
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