Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 89, Issue 4 , Pages 641-647 , April 2008

Rasch Analysis of the Barthel Index in the Assessment of Hospitalized Older Patients After Admission for an Acute Medical Condition

  • Natalie A. de Morton, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiotherapy, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Natalie A. de Morton, PhD, Dept of Physiotherapy, School of Primary Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University-Peninsula Campus, PO Box 527, Frankston, Victoria, Australia 3199
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  • Jennifer L. Keating, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiotherapy, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
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  • Megan Davidson, PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.

  • Image Result

    Person-item threshold distribution for the original Barthel Index after rescoring disordered thresholds.

    Person-item threshold distribution for the original Barthel Index after rescoring disordered thresholds.

  • Image Result

    Person-item threshold distribution for the MBI after rescoring disordered thresholds.

    Person-item threshold distribution for the MBI after rescoring disordered thresholds.

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    Scatterplot of item logit locations (95% CI) for the original and Modified Barthel Index (BI) at hospital admission after rescoring disordered thresholds.

    Scatterplot of item logit locations (95% CI) for the original and Modified Barthel Index (BI) at hospital admission after rescoring disordered thresholds.

 Supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (Dora Lush Postgraduate Scholarship no. 280632).

 No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the authors or upon any organization with which the authors are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(08)00027-0

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.10.021

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 89, Issue 4 , Pages 641-647 , April 2008

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