The most common reason for functional decline in nursing home patients is:
A. Heart failure
B. Stroke
C. Urinary tract infection
D. Myocardial infarction
ANS: C
Clinical practice guidelines suggest that in 77% of episodes of functional decline in long-term care residents, infection is the cause, and the most frequent site of such infection is the urinary tract (55%).
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