The accepted standard treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis consists of medications for
disease symptoms, including treatment for acute exacerbations. However, currently there is …

Objective: The reliability of the Functional Independence Measure (FIM SM ) for adults was
examined using procedures of meta-analysis. Data Sources: Eleven published studies …

The Functional Independence Measure (FIM) records the severity of disability of rehabilitation
patients. The necessarily curvilinear relationship between the finite range of recorded FIM …

EDICAL rehabilitation, which has as its mission the restoration of performance ability in
individuals with limitations in function, is caught in the same dilemma created by the advent of …

In view of current emphasis on evaluation of benefits derived from rehabilitation programs, it
is important that there be easily replicated measures for demonstrating the efficiency and …

Functional abilities of stroke patients in a rehabilitation hospital are recorded every 2 weeks
using the Barthel index. For purposes of this study, data were collected retrospectively and …

The Functional Independence Measure (FIM) is an 18-item, 7-level scale developed to
uniformly assess severity of patient disability and medical rehabilitation functional outcome. FIM …

The functional independence measure (FIM) is used to determine the degree of disability
that patients experience and the progress that they make through programs of medical …

The purpose of this study was to investigate disability in persons after stroke by using
combinations of functional assessment item, subscale, domain, and full-scale scores, to predict (1) …

Objective: The analysis presented here evaluated the psychometric properties of the
Functional Independence Measure (FIM) as a summated rating scale within context of the 20 …