Assessing Physical Function in the Elderly

Assessment of Older People: Self-Maintaining and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

1969 • 16,855 citations

Functional evaluation : Barthel index

1965 • 12,604 citations

Studies of Illness in the Aged

1963 • 11,242 citations

The Sickness Impact Profile: Development and Final Revision of a Health Status Measure

1981 • 4,685 citations

Measurement of patient outcome in arthritis

1980 • 4,275 citations

An Epidemiology of Disability among Adults in the United States

1976 • 1,431 citations

The dimensions of health outcomes: the health assessment questionnaire, disability and pain scales.

1982 • 1,303 citations

Relationship of physical health status and health practices

1972 • 1,119 citations

A Guttman Health Scale for the Aged

1966 • 1,114 citations

PERCEIVED HEALTH AND MORTALITY: A NINE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP OF THE HUMAN POPULATION LABORATORY COHORT1

1983 • 1,078 citations

Active Life Expectancy

1983 • 822 citations

A prospective study of long-term care institutionalization among the aged.

1982 • 449 citations

Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly: Resource Data Book

1987 • 412 citations

A prospective study of functional status among community elders.

1984 • 366 citations

Assessing the Elderly: A Practical Guide to Measurement

1982 • 289 citations

Factors explaining the use of health care services by the elderly.

1984 • 273 citations

PREDICTION VALUES FOR SCREENING TESTS OF PULMONARY FUNCTION.

1965 • 190 citations

Manual ability as a marker of dependency in geriatric women

1982 • 170 citations

The Validity of Self-reported Physician Utilization Measures

1984 • 167 citations

Induced Disability in Nursing Home Patients: A Controlled Trial

1982 • 160 citations

Toward understanding elders' health service utilization

1981 • 152 citations

The Performance Test of Activities of Daily Living

1976 • 142 citations

Health Services Utilization among the Noninstitutionalized Elderly

1983 • 135 citations

The dimensions of health outcomes: a cross-validated examination of health status measurement.

1984 • 124 citations

Classification of disability in the chronically ill and aging

1957 • 113 citations

Repeatability and objectivity of various measurements in rheumatoid arthritis. A comparative study

1976 • 110 citations

Survival and functional capacity: three year follow up of an elderly population in hospitals and homes.

1983 • 95 citations

The elderly in residential care: mortality in relation to functional capacity.

1980 • 95 citations

Predictors of Long Term Care Facility Use among the Elderly

1985 • 86 citations

Numerical scoring of self-care status: a study of the Kenny self-care evaluation.

1968 • 72 citations

Functional status measurement and medical rehabilitation outcomes.

1976 • 71 citations

Use of In-Home Care by Very Old People

1984 • 68 citations

Mortality in relation to the functional capacities of people with disabilities living at home.

1982 • 64 citations

A quantitative method of identifying older persons at risk for increasing long term care services

1984 • 62 citations

A RAPID DISABILITY RATING SCALE

1967 • 60 citations

Rehospitalization and spinal cord injury: cross-sectional survey of adults living independently.

1985 • 59 citations

The effects of respondent rules on health survey reports.

1985 • 46 citations

A functional status assessment instrument: validation in an elderly population.

1980 • 39 citations

GAUGING THE RESPONSE OF STROKE PATIENTS TO REHABILITATION

1967 • 14 citations

Age and Capacity Devaluation

1970 • 13 citations

Negative Health Outcomes among the Elderly

1985 • 11 citations

Incentives to Families Caring for Disabled Elderly:

1979 • 10 citations