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Table 1 Patients’ characteristics, allocating Department, diagnosis, pain, subjective rating of mobility, Basic Mobility Scale at admission and Total Functional Independence Measure at admission

From: Reliability, validity, sensitivity and internal consistency of the ICF based Basic Mobility Scale for measuring the mobility of patients with musculoskeletal problems in the acute hospital setting: a prospective study

 

Mean (SD)/Amount

Age (years)

 Mean

67.2 (9.2)

 Min-max

50–90

Height (cm)

 Mean

168.7 (8.9)

 Min-max

149–200

Weight (kg)

 Mean

79.7 (17.0)

 Min-max

46–127

From the Department of

 Orthopedics

96

 Trauma-Surgery

23

 Internal Medicine

5

Diagnosis

 Total knee arthroplasty

52

 Total hip arthroplasty

32

 Proximal femur nail

8

 Spinal surgery

7

 Others (e.g. deconditioning due to chronic respiratory disease, lung transplantation, or chronic renal failure)

26

Pain at admission (VAS)

 Mean

3.7 (2.7)

 Min-max

0–10

Subjective rating of mobility (VAS)

 Mean

5.1 (2.8)

 Min-max

0–10

BMS at admission (n = 125)

 Mean

32.30 (14.95)

 Min-max

8–68

Total FIM score at admission (n = 125)

 Mean

10.08 (4.07)

 Min-max

3–21

  1. BMS, basic mobility scale, VAS visual analogue scale (0: no pain/no limitations—10: worst possible pain/worst possible limitations), Total FIM score addition of all FIM subscales (Functional Independence Measure)