Functional status outcomes of a nursing intervention in hospitalized elderly.

Category Primary study
JournalImage--the journal of nursing scholarship
Year 1992
This paper examines the effectiveness of a nursing intervention for elderly hospitalized patients (N = 235) as measured by functional outcomes. A nursing intervention targeted at factors which influence acute confusion or delirium employed strategies to educate nursing staff, mobilize patients, monitor medication and make environmental and sensory modifications. Subjects who received the intervention were more likely to improve in functional status from admission to discharge than subjects who did not receive the intervention.
Epistemonikos ID: 1880e795533a5bc919a2fe4f133997ba002823a4
First added on: Feb 11, 2013