Inaccurate Use of the Upper Extremity Fugl Meyer Negatively Impacts UE Rehabilitation Trial Design: Findings from the ICARE RCT

Determine the extent to which estimates of sample and effect size in stroke rehabilitation trials can be affected by simple summation of ordinal Upper Extremity Fugl-Meyer (UEFM) items compared to a Rasch-rescaled UEFM.

Source: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - September 25, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Shashwati Geed, Christianne J. Lane, Monica A. Nelsen, Steven L. Wolf, Carolee J. Winstein, Alexander W. Dromerick Source Type: research