Objectives: To determine the effect of cognitive status at admission on functional gain during
rehabilitation of elderly hip-fractured patients. Design: Cohort study. Setting: A hospital
geriatric rehabilitation department. Patients: Two hundred twenty-four elderly patients
admitted consecutively for rehabilitation after surgery for hip fracture. Measurements:
Cognitive status was assessed by the Mini-Mental State Examination and the cognitive
subscale of the Functional Independence Measure (cognFIM); functional status was …