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Patients discharged from an acute care hospital to an acute rehabilitation facility are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days if they score poorly on the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) test, which measures a person’s ability to perform activities of daily living, according to a study at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Assessing patients’ functional status to identify risks for readmission