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	Índex Barthel: Avaluació del resultat funcional després d'un ictus isquèmic	Escala de Discapacitat Expandida EDSS: Kurtzke
Camp	Neurologia	Neurologia
Família	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Any d'origen	1965	1983
Autor original	Florence I. Mahoney and Dorothea Barthel	John F. Kurtzke
Tipus	Clinician or caregiver report	Clinician-rated
Font seminal	Barthel, D. W., Gottwald, B. (1965). Functional Evaluation: The Barthel Index. Maryland State Medical Journal, 14(5), 61-65.	Kurtzke, J. F. (1983). Rating neurologic impairment in multiple sclerosis: An expanded disability status scale (EDSS). Neurology, 33(11), 1444-1452.
Àlies	Barthel Index, Modified Barthel Index	Expanded Disability Status Scale
Relacionats	4	4
Resum	The Barthel Index (BI) is the most widely used functional assessment tool for measuring disability and dependency in activities of daily living, particularly in stroke and neurological rehabilitation. Developed by Florence Mahoney and Dorothea Barthel in 1965, the 10-item index quantifies independence in basic self-care and mobility tasks. The Barthel Index is the standard functional outcome measure in stroke trials, rehabilitation settings, and long-term follow-up cohorts, predicting discharge disposition and functional prognosis.	The EDSS is the most widely used clinical disability rating scale in multiple sclerosis research and practice. Developed by John Kurtzke in 1983, it provides a 0-10 ordinal scale capturing disease severity across eight neurological functional systems and functional status. The EDSS remains the primary endpoint in MS clinical trials and longitudinal cohort studies, with decades of prognostic and comparative data worldwide.