Modified Rankin Scale with Expanded Guidance Scheme and Interview Questionnaire: Interrater Agreement and Reproducibility of Assessment

Shinohara, Yukito; Minematsu, Kazuo; Amano, Takahiro; Ohashi, Yasuo

doi:10.1159/000091226

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Modified Rankin Scale with Expanded Guidance Scheme and Interview Questionnaire: Interrater Agreement and Reproducibility of Assessment

Published in Cerebrovascular Diseases • Jan 1, 2006

Authors:

Yukito Shinohara

Kazuo Minematsu

Takahiro Amano

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The modified Rankin scale (mRS) is commonly employed as a measure of functional outcome after stroke. The purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability of the mRS using an expanded guidance scheme and a corresponding questionnaire on an unprecedentedly large scale. METHODS: Ne...

Subject

Intraclass correlation

Inter-rater reliability

Medicine

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