Primary objective: Rehabilitation scales following neurological injury can be useful for
monitoring patient progress. However, too often, rehabilitation scales are administered …

Purpose: In some hospitals, patients exhibit significant heterogeneity of function at
admission and discharge. The current study aims to assess if concurrent usage of the Early …

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the most appropriate rehabilitation outcome
measure for use in a young adult population with acquired brain injury. Methods: A 2-year …

Objectives: To study group changes over time after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Design:
Prospective cohort. Setting and Participants: TBI Model System Database with 1160 subjects …

There is an increasing demand for measures of outcome to evaluate the effects of
rehabilitation interventions for brain injury from clinicians, research workers and healthcare …

Background It is difficult to assess neurological and neurosurgical early rehabilitation
patients comprehensively. Available scales focus on activities of daily living (Barthel (BI) and …

Objective: To examine the interrater reliability and completion time of the Functional
Assessment Measure, which is the Functional Independence Measure (FIM™) plus …

Objective: The Functional Independence Measure (FIM) was used to measure function in
first-stroke patients on admission to and discharge from a rehabilitation center, and to …

Background. The impact of age on rehabilitation outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI) as
measured by changes in the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) has been addressed …

Stroke is a leading cause of functional impairments. The ability to quantify the functional
ability of poststroke patients engaged in a rehabilitation program may assist in prediction of …