However, there was no genotypic correlation between any of these functional and demographic parameters.
Conclusion: The association among functional abilities, demographic characteristics, and follow-up living setting in patients with stroke is complex.
To determine whether functional and demographic senescence have a similar genetic basis, we measured genotypic variation in the age-related change in cold-stress resilience and age-specific mortality using ten inbred lines of Drosophila melanogaster.
Conclusion: As prospective payment systems are introduced for postacute care, it is important that the relationship among functional abilities, demographic characteristics, and incidence of hospital readmission following medical rehabilitation be examined.
This assessment will involve functional questionnaires, demographic information, health related quality of life and falls history/self efficacy.
Whilst the study can investigate the strengths of associations, it cannot investigate the temporal association of health, functional, and demographic variables with depressed mood, and therefore, the directionality of association.
Since the subjects in the EG and CG were matched with respect to clinical, functional, and demographic characteristics at baseline, spontaneous recovery might have equally concerned both groups, and, therefore, any further between-group difference should be regarded as treatment-related.
Another example of such research analyses has shown that home healthcare agencies which direct their efforts on key risk factors (such as for specific clinical, functional and demographic factors) can help understand and therefore decrease the rate of patients' re-hospitalizations [ 10].
