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Ability of the Functional Independence Measure (TM) to predict rehabilitation after stroke
— a review of the literature | | Author(s) | Rebecca J Timbeck, Sandi J Spauling |
| Journal title | Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, vol 22, no 1, 2003 |
| Pages | pp 63-76 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Service, The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. http://www.HaworthPress.com |
| Keywords | Stroke ; Rehabilitation ; Independence ; Self care capacity ; Evaluation ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | The Functional Independence Measure (FIM) is a widely used assessment tool in stroke. rehabilitation for assessing functional improvement, disability and burden of care, and the instrument is evaluated in this literature review. Absolute admission FIM score is a strong predictor of discharge FIM score, outcome disability and discharge destination. Patients with admission FIM scores of less than 50 remain dependent with self-care activities at discharge from rehabilitation. Patient admission FIM scores equal to or greater than 90 will be independent with most activities of daily living (ADLs) and have a high likelihood of being discharged home. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-061006013 A |
| Classmark | CQA: LM: C3: CA: 4C: 64A |
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