Dr. Carl V. Granger, executive director of both UDSMR and the Center for Functional Assessment Research, is the father of The FIM System®. ... The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) adopted UDSMR’s FIM™ instrument for the IRF-PPS. UDSMR also provides exclusive training and support to CMS.
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Heinemann et al., 1997). Precision (the ability of the instrument to detect meaningful change in level of function during rehabilitation) has been observed to be high (Granger et al., 1990). The FIM(TM) has clinically appropriate validity and interrater agreement (Hamilton et al., 1991).
www.tbims.org/combi/FIM/fimprop.html www.tbims.org/combi/FIM/fimprop.html
What is the Functional Independence MeasureTM instrument? ... No. One needs to be a licensed clinician trained in the FIM System® before assigning scores to people. This involves watching training videos, observing others in practice, and taking a credentialing exam.
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Zwecker M, Levenkrohn S, Fleisig Y, Zeilig G, Ohry A, Adunsky A. Mini-Mental State Examination, cognitive FIM instrument, and the Loewenstein Occupational ...
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The FIM instrument is the most widely used inpatient functional assessment tool. We are aware of researchers using the FIM instrument as a self-reporting ...
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OBJECTIVES: To describe the modifications made to the FIM instrument when it was incorporated into the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility-Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI), and to compare FIM data collected before and after the IRF prospective payment system (IRF-PPS) was implemented in 2002 for patients with stroke.
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The FIM, or Functional Independence Measure, is an assessment instrument ... The UDSMR, the FIM instrument and UDSMR's data-management service are the ...
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BioInfoBank Library :: Determination of the Minimal Clinically Important Difference in the FIM Instrument in Patients With Stroke. Anterior Pituitary Function May Predict Functional and Cognitive Outcome in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury Undergoing Rehabilitation. ... Functional status was measured using the FIM instrument,
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BioInfoBank Library :: Agreement Between Patient and Proxy Responses During Recovery After Hip Fracture: Evidence for the FIM Instrument. Agreement between patient and proxy responses of health-related quality of life after hip fracture. ... MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: The FIM instrument. Agreement was evaluated at each of the...
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Determination of the minimal clinically important difference in the FIM instrument in patients with stroke. ... OBJECTIVE: To define the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for the FIM instrument in patients poststroke. DESIGN: Prospective case series discharged over a 9-month period. SETTING: Long-term acute...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16401435