Rater experience influences reliability and validity of the Brief International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Core Set for Stroke.
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https://doi.org/10.2340/16501977-2063Keywords:
ICF, stroke, reproducibility of results, clinical experience, disabled persons.Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To investigate how clinical experience and access to patient information regarding functional capability influence inter-rater reliability and validity of the Brief International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Core Set for Stroke (ICF) assessment. METHODS: Study 1 involved expert (clinical experience > 5 years) and novice (clinical experience < 2 years) rater-pairs, each evaluating the same post-stroke patients using the ICF assessment (n = 149). Study 2 involved novice raters separately evaluating a different cohort of post-stroke patients with the ICF assessment (n = 78). The novice raters had prior knowledge of patient functioning through conducting 6 clinical tests. RESULTS: For Study 1, the expert rater-pairs (kappa=0.50-0.85 for categoriesDownloads
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