Sensitivity to Change and Responsiveness of the Upper Extremity Fugl-Meyer Assessment in Individuals With Moderate to Severe Acute Stroke.
Baothy P HuynhJulie A DiCarloIsha VoraJessica RanfordPerman GochyyevDavid J LinTeresa Jacobson KimberleyPublished in: Neurorehabilitation and neural repair (2023)
The estimated MCID for the FMA-UE for individuals with moderate to severe motor impairment from 1 to 6-weeks after stroke is 13. These estimates will provide clinical context for FMA-UE change scores by helping to identify the change in upper-extremity motor impairment that is both beyond measurement error and clinically meaningful.