Relationship between Activities of Daily Living and Readmission within 90 Days in Hospitalized Elderly Patients with Heart Failure

Table 4

Comparison of FIM items between the nonreadmission and readmission groups.

	Nonreadmission group	Readmission group	or value	p value
Eating	6.8 ± 0.6	6.7 ± 0.5	0.46	0.430
Grooming	6.6 ± 0.8	6.0 ± 1.0	1.39	0.004
Bathing	6.2 ± 1.1	5.2 ± 1.2	0.04	0.001
Dressing upper body	6.5 ± 0.8	5.7 ± 1.0	0.36	<0.001
Dressing lower body	6.5 ± 0.9	5.6 ± 1.1	1.14	<0.001
Toileting	6.5 ± 0.8	5.8 ± 1.2	3.42	0.002
Bladder management	6.8 ± 0.6	6.5 ± 0.8	8.74	0.100
Bowel management	6.8 ± 0.6	6.4 ± 1.1	21.09	0.060
Transfer to bed/chair/wheelchair	6.7 ± 0.6	6.4 ± 0.7	1.96	0.044
Transfer to toilet	6.6 ± 0.7	6.1 ± 0.9	0.54	0.005
Transfer to tub/shower	5.2 ± 1.7	4.2 ± 1.5	1.10	0.012
Walking/wheelchair	6.3 ± 0.9	5.6 ± 1.3	0.60	0.007
Stairs	2.4 ± 2.1	1.4 ± 1.2	17.55	0.005

Values are presented as a mean ± standard deviation; value.