Table 1 |
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| Outline of the adjustments in the Flemish interRAI AC | ||
| ADJUSTED | REMOVED | ADDED |
| - Birth date | - Name: middle initial | - Admitted from & usual residence |
| - Marital status | - Current payment sources for inpatient stay | - Wishes or needs related to nourishment or personal hygiene, etc. |
| - Ethnicity/race | - Contact persons – general practitioner: address, telephone & mobile number | |
| - Primary language | - Contact person: address, relation to patient, telephone and mobile number | |
| - National numeric identifier | - Hearing appliance | |
| - Facility/agency provider number | - Visual appliance | |
| - Date stay began | - Weight at discharge | |
| - Admitted from | - Prescription diet | |
| - Living arrangement | - Treatments: others | |
| - Time spent in emergency room | - Therapy/nursing: nursing services | |
| - Date of surgical procedure | - Therapy/nursing: others | |
| - Reference date of admission assessment | - Advance directive for euthanasia | |
| - Reference date of day 14 assessment | - Advance directive: other | |
| - Reference date of discharge assessment | - Community services: night care | |
| - Primary mode of locomotion: bedbound or confined to chair | - Community services: personal alarm system | |
| - Treatments: intravenous therapy | - Community services: physiotherapy | |
| - Discharge: last day of stay | - Community services: pedicure | |
| - Discharge: discharged to | - Additional section: social support/informal care giver (14 items) | |
| STRUCTURAL CHANGES | ||
| 1. | "Day 14" assessment period replaced with "Reassessment" | |
| 2. | Reassessment of following items: | |
| Easily distracted | ||
| Episodes of disorganized speech | ||
| Mental functioning varies over the course of the day | ||
| Acute change in mental status from person’s baseline | ||
| Mode of nutritional intake | ||
| Fatigue | ||
| Most severe pressure ulcer | ||
| 3. | Discharge assessment of following items: | |
| Community services | ||
Wellens et al. BMC Geriatrics 2012 12:53 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-12-53
