Development and Validation of the Balance Outcome Measure for Elder Rehabilitation

Distribution of scores for each item from inpatient admission and outpatient and domiciliary discharge data.

Distribution of BOOMER scores from inpatient admission and outpatient and domiciliary discharge data.

Point estimates and 95% CIs for minimum clinically significant differences for the BOOMER calculated from development and validation datasets. Data presented are point estimate and 95% CI of the mean difference between groups. *Discharge BOOMER – admission BOOMER (within subjects), for inpatients discharged to the community. ^†Admission BOOMER for subjects for whom improving standing balance was a fourth- or lower-ranked treatment goal – admission BOOMER for subjects who had improving standing balance as 1 of their top 3 treatment goals (between subjects). ^‡Admission BOOMER for outpatient or domiciliary patients – admission BOOMER for inpatients (between subjects). ^§Discharge BOOMER for patients whose living status at discharge was the community – discharge BOOMER for patients whose living status at discharge was not the community (eg, nursing home, hospital) (between subjects). ^∥Change in BOOMER (discharge – admission) for people whose improvement in FIM motor score was 10 points or more – change in BOOMER (discharge – admission) for people whose improvement in FIM motor score was less than 10 points (between subjects).