January 1, 2017Open Access

Establishing score equivalence of the Functional Independence Measure motor scale and the Barthel Index, utilising the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and Rasch measurement theory

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Having a Rasch interval metric to transform scores between the FIM™ motor scale and Barthel Index is valuable for monitoring functioning, meta-analysis, quality audits and hospital benchmarking.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69d7777def4aa71f97f3165d https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2340/16501977-2225

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