Using Clinical Balance Tests to Assess Fall Risk among Established Unilateral Lower Limb Prosthesis Users: Cutoff Scores and Associated Validity Indices
Abstract
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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- May 03, 2019
- Source ID
- 10.1002/pmrj.12160
Entities
People
- Andrew Sawers
- Brian J Hafner
Organizations
- National Institutes of Health
- United States Department of Defense
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Washington