Patients Undergoing Subacute Physical Rehabilitation following an Acute Hospital Admission Demonstrated Improvement in Cognitive Functional Task Independence

Table 2

Change in Functional Independence Measure Cognitive items scores between admission and discharge from subacute rehabilitation.

Item	Score at discharge in comparison to admission			Wilcoxon signed rank test
	Lower, (%)	Equal, (%)	Higher, (%)	-score	value
Comprehension	40 (5.7%)	538 (76.4%)	126 (17.9%)	6.69	<0.001
Expression	31 (4.4%)	554 (78.7%)	119 (16.9%)	7.12	<0.001
Social interaction	55 (7.8%)	543 (77.1%)	106 (15.1%)	3.93	<0.001
Problem solving	35 (5.0%)	533 (75.7%)	136 (19.3%)	7.67	<0.001
Memory	33 (4.7%)	517 (73.4%)	154 (21.9%)	8.74	<0.001
Total	79 (11.2%)	382 (54.3%)	243 (34.5%)	9.12	<0.001