Parker and Palmer Score

Parker MJ, Palmer CR: A new mobility score for predicting mortality after hip fracture. J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 1993: 75-B:797-8.

Paker and Palmer score是用於評估近端股骨骨折術後一年後死亡機率的工具。

內含Mobility score 及Abbreviated mental test score兩部分，附上spreadsheet方便使用。

Mobility (Score is the total, 0 to 9):  3: No difficulty, 2: With an aid, 1: With help from another person, 0: Not at all Able to get about the house
Able to get out of the house
Able to go shopping

Abbreviated mental test: 10個項目，正確得1分

State age

Give the current time to the nearest hour

Remember an address and repeat it at the end of the test

State the current year

Name the institution to which you have been admitted

Recognize two persons

State date of birth (day and month are sufficient)

Give the year of the start of the Second World War

Name the present monarch or head of state

Count backwards from 20 to 1