Cleveland Clinic Children's Outcomes
Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation
Pediatric Inpatient Rehab: WeeFIM Scores
Length of Stay
2018 - 2022
The WeeFIM II® System, a pediatric version of the Functional Independence Measure™ (FIM) System, documents and tracks functional performance in children and adolescents with acquired or congenital disabilities by measuring a child's need for assistance, in addition to the severity of disability. WeeFIM also provides a method to evaluate outcomes for pediatric rehabilitation programs.
The WeeFIM national database provides reports comparing individual programs against national benchmarks. The WeeFIM length-of-stay efficiency score is the most important measure of the effectiveness of a rehabilitation program because it indicates how quickly a program is able to improve a child's functional abilities. Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation's score has consistently outperformed similar facilities and the national benchmark.
LOS = length of stay
ᵃThe benchmark is calculated from a database of WeeFIM performance measures for similar facilities, housed by the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (udsmr.org).
Functional Ability
2022
The WeeFIM II System measures several metrics of functional ability including self-care, mobility, and cognition. WeeFIM measures the improvement — or gain — in these areas from the time of admission to time of discharge.
Self-care refers to how well a child is able to feed, groom, bath, dress, and complete toileting tasks including the management of bowel and bladder.
Mobility refers to how well a child is able to transfer in/out of a chair or wheelchair, on/off a toilet, or in/out of a tub or shower. Mobility also includes a child's ability to walk, crawl, or use a wheelchair, and to go up/down stairs.
Cognition refers to how well a child understands information, expresses themselves, interacts with peers, solves daily problems, and recalls information.
ᵃThe national benchmark is calculated from a database of WeeFIM performance measures for similar facilities, housed by the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (udsmr.org).