Using Clinical Balance Tests to Assess Fall Risk among Established Unilateral Lower Limb Prosthesis Users: Cutoff Scores and Associated Validity Indices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinicians are routinely required to make decisions about fall risk among lower limb prosthesis (LLP) users. These decisions can be guided by standardized clinical balance tests but require population- and test-specific cutoff scores and validity indices to categorize individuals as probable fallers or nonfallers on the basis of test performance. Despite the importance of cutoff scores and validity indices to clinical interpretation of clinical balance test scores, they are rarely reported for LLP users. In their absence, clinicians cannot use results from clinical balance tests to assess the likelihood of a fall by any one patient.

Objective

Derive cutoff scores, and associated validity indices, for clinical balance tests administered to established unilateral LL

SUBMITTER: Sawers A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6755076 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature