Assessing recovery and disability after physical trauma: the Pediatric Injury Functional Outcome Scale.

Objective: To establish reliability and validity of the Pediatric Injury Functional Outcome Scale (PIFOS), a brief injury-specific rating scale covering motor, self-care, communication, social-emotional, cognition, physical, and academic areas.

Methods: In a prospective longitudinal study, the PIFOS structured interview was administered to parents of children 3-15 years of age at 3 and 12 months after hospitalization for traumatic brain injury (TBI) or orthopedic injury (OI).

Results: The total score had good internal consistency (α = .