The mobility scale for acute stroke patients: Concurrent validity

With increasing pressure for accountability in the Australian health service, clinicians require reliable and valid measurement tools for assessing the physical status of stroke patients in the acute setting prior to entering rehabilitation, so that predictions can be made about the potential length of stay in rehabilitation and level of outcome. In response to the lack of suitable measures of physical disability for acute stroke patients, the Mobility Scale for Acute Stroke Patients was developed. The aim of this paper was to investigate the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of the scale.