Using Admission Characteristics to Predict Return to the Community from a Post‐Acute Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit

To compare the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (CIRS) and the Nursing Severity Index (NSI) as independent predictors of discharge outcome from a post-acute GEM unit and to define a multivariate model for predicting the same outcome.Retrospective chart review for the entire sample. The sample was split into two cohorts, a derivation cohort (n = 298) and a validation cohort (n = 154).A 20-bed, post-acute GEM unit in a nonproprietary skilled...