Inter-Rater Reliability of the Rasch-Modified Medical Research Council Scoring Criteria for Manual Muscle Testing In Neuromuscular Diseases.
Rodrigo Melo CondeLívia de Almeida Pereira PenaAdriana Helena do Nascimento EliasCarlos Tostes GuerreiroDanilo Assis PereiraCláudia Ferreira da Rosa SobreiraWilson MarquesAmilton Antunes BarreiraPublished in: Journal of the peripheral nervous system : JPNS (2023)
The results indicate that both MRC scoring criteria have significant reliability among trained observers. Moreover, the Rasch-modified MRC scale is as reliable as the original MRC scale and can be used in future clinical studies.