Disability assessment using Google Maps.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the concordance between Google Maps® application (GM®) and clinical practice measurements of ambulatory function (e.g., Ambulation Score (AS) and respective Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS)) in people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS).

Materials and methods

This is a cross-sectional multicenter study. AS and EDSS were calculated using GM® and routine clinical methods; the correspondence between the two methods was assessed. A multinomial logistic model is investigated which demographic (age, sex) and clinical features (e.g., disease subtype, fatigue, depression) might have influenced discrepancies between the two methods.

Results

Two hundred forty-three pwMS were included; discrepancies in AS and in EDDS assessments between GM® and routine c

SUBMITTER: Lavorgna L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8211455 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature