Two Easy-to-Use Scores to Identify Acute Geriatric Patients With High Rehabilitation Success

Many geriatric patients who would benefit from a stay in an acute geriatric ward (AGW) are not identified because of the lack of objective and standardized predictive measures for rehabilitation success. We thus aimed to develop 2 easy-to-use, standardized predictive scores, Discharged Home Score (DHS) and Barthel Index Improvement Score (BIS), to identify such geriatric patients by predicting the rehabilitation success of a stay in an AGW.