title: Analyzing functional status data helps hospital improve knee and hip replacements.
abstract: Collect and interpret functional status data to improve patient care. A Florida hospital tracks patients' functional status for a year after hip and knee surgery to analyze the effectiveness of the surgery and change clinical pathways when needed. Project leaders overcame low survey return rates and difficulty in segmenting patient populations to allow physicians to compare like patients.
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip; D019645:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee; D019985:Benchmarking; D005431:Florida; D006306:Health Surveys; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011788:Quality of Life; D020127:Recovery of Function