Citation

Machamer J, Temkin N, Manley G, Dikmen S. J. Neurotrauma 2018; 35(10): 1132-1137.

Affiliation

University of Washington, Rehabilitation Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States ; dikmen@u.washington.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Mary Ann Liebert Publishers)

DOI

10.1089/neu.2017.5460

PMID

29415608

Abstract

The assessment of functional status after traumatic brain injury (TBI) is important. The Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) and its revised version Glasgow Outcome Scale Extended (GOSE) have been used most frequently in TBI research but there are concerns about the sensitivity of these measures. The current study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Functional Status Examination (FSE) using a sample of 448 moderately to severely injured subjects with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The FSE is significantly related to other measures of functional status including the GOSE, Short Form Health Survey and EuroQol Checklist(p <.001), is sensitive to TBI severity (p <.001), and is responsive to recovery from 3 to 6 months post-injury (p <.001). In addition, there was a significant agreement (r =.817, p <.001) between the patient and significant other's assessment of functional status on the FSE at 6-months post-injury. The FSE may be a valuable measure of functional status after TBI given its strong psychometric properties including validity, sensitivity to brain injury severity, and recovery over time.

Language: en

Keywords

ASSESSMENT TOOLS; OUTCOME MEASURES; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY