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Motor Dual-Tasks for Gait Analysis and Evaluation in Post-Stroke Patients
Published on: March 11, 2021
Prediction of discharge destination after stroke using the motor assessment scale on admission: a prospective,
Sandra G Brauer1, Paul G Bew, Suzanne S Kuys
1Division of Physiotherapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. s.brauer@shrs.uq.edu.au
Objective:
To determine if admission functional status, measured with the Motor Assessment Scale (MAS), was predictive of discharge destination to home or residential aged care in patients with stroke undergoing rehabilitation.
Design:
Cohort study.
Setting:
Inpatient rehabilitation units.
Participants:
Adults (N=566) diagnosed with stroke undergoing inpatient physiotherapy at one of 15 units in Australia.
Intervention:
Multidisciplinary rehabilitation.
Main Outcome Measure:
Discharge home versus residential aged care.
Results:
Prestroke residential status, gait ability measured with the MAS (MAS-5), rolling ability (MAS-1), and age were able to correctly predict 99% of patients with stroke discharged home and 33.3% discharged to residential aged care facilities, producing an accuracy of 87.3%. Odds ratios indicate that for every 1-point increase in MAS-5 (gait), subjects were 1.66 times more likely to go home (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.28-2.27; P<.001). Similarly, for every 1-point increase in MAS-1 (rolling), subjects were 1.28 times more likely to go home (95% CI, 1.11-1.49; P<.01).
Conclusions:
Two items of the MAS assessed on admission to rehabilitation-gait and rolling-in conjunction with basic demographic information of age and prestroke residential status, were highly predictive of discharge from rehabilitation to home.