Table 1.
Complete and incomplete case episodes categorised by Impairment code.
Fig 1.
The figure shows the different stages of the data cleaning process to obtain a dataset comprising completed episodes of rehabilitation with valid FIM scores. The most common reason for exclusion, accounting for more than half the excluded cases, was transfer back to the acute hospital setting for medical or surgical management. Many such cases will have returned to rehabilitation in a separate episode. Multiple episodes for the same individual were not linked in this analysis, but the process of concatenation will support linkage of serial episodes in future analyses.
Fig 2.
Radar Charts (FIM-Splats) showing median FIM scores on admission and discharge for the 12 groups.
The FIM-Splat provides graphic presentation of the disability profile in a radar chart. The 18 items are arranged as ‘spokes of the wheel’ and the Levels from 1 (total dependence) to 7 (total independence) run from the centre outwards. Thus a perfect score would be demonstrated as a large circle. The group median scores for each item are plotted for admission and discharge. The difference between median scores on admission and discharge is depicted by the shaded area.
Table 2.
Grouping for analysis.
Table 3.
Characteristics of the incomplete episodes (n = 8076).
Table 4.
Demographics within the six groups for the complete episodes (n = 28,596).
Table 5.
Median (IQR) FIM total and subscale scores on admission and discharge, with Wilcoxon Signed Rank tests for change between admission and discharge.
Fig 3.
FIM Motor and Cognitive change scores.
Medians are denoted by solid black lines while the top and bottom box edges denote the first and third quartile. The T-bars or whiskers denote the largest and smallest data within 1.5 times the interquartile range. The small circles are outliers, values that do not fall in the inner fences. The extreme values amongst outliers are marked with an asterisk. These are cases that have values more than three times the height of the boxes.
Table 6.
Improvement in the median FIM item scores between admission and discharge.
Fig 4.
FIM—Splat Motor and Cognitive change score.
The FIM-Splat provides graphic presentation of the disability profile in a radar chart. The 18 items are arranged as ‘spokes of the wheel’ and the Levels from 1 (total dependence) to 7 (total independence) run from the centre outwards. Thus a perfect score would be demonstrated as a large circle. The group median scores for each item are plotted for admission and discharge. The difference between median scores on admission and discharge is depicted by the shaded area.