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 Kimberley

Published 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.

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