Inter-tester reliability and agreement of the Cumulated Ambulation Score in acute stroke: The InTRO-CAS-stroke study.

Title: Inter-Tester Reliability and Agreement of the Cumulated Ambulation Score in Stroke patients: The InTRO-CAS-stroke study OBJECTIVE: To examine the inter-tester reliability of the total Cumulated Ambulation Score (CAS) and the three activities of the CAS, and to define limits for the smallest change in basic mobility that indicates a real change in patients with stroke.

Methods: An intertester reliability study.

Setting: Participants: 60 participants from a specialized stroke unit with a mean age of 69.

Healthcare Professionals' Experiences with Functional Independence Measure (FIM) as a Structured Framework for Interprofessional Team Meetings in Danish Stroke Rehabilitation: A Qualitative Cross-Sectoral Collaborative Study.

Purpose: An ethnographic and phenomenological mapping of the experiences of healthcare professionals with the functional independence measure (FIM) in stroke rehabilitation.

Methods: This is a cross-sectoral qualitative study with triangulation of data from two focus group interviews, 15 individual interviews, and 11 participant observations of FIM assessments performed by six different healthcare professions in interprofessional teams. FIM assessments were performed at hospital and in a community rehabilitation centre as interprofessional meetings with a local facilitator certified in FIM.