Abstract The Boston Working Group on Improving Health Care Outcomes Through Geriatric
Rehabilitation was structured around four major themes:(1) defining disability or
disablement;(2) the patient's experience of the processes and outcomes of care;(3) the role
and value of clinical practice guidelines; and (4) the need for casemix and severity or risk
adjustment procedures and measures. These discussions produced opening statements of
policy or empiric issues and recommendations about the best means of demonstrating the …