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| Availability |
Information about this instrument is available at: Chelsea Critical Care Physical Assessment Tool.
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| Classification |
Exploratory: Unruptured Cerebral Aneurysms and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH)
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| Short Description of Instrument |
The Chelsea Critical Care Physical Assessment Tool is used to measure physical morbidity and recovery in the critical care population.
Domains: grip strength, bed mobility, supine to sit, sit to stand, standing balance, stepping.
The CPAx is comprised of 10 commonly assessed components of physical assessment, which are evaluated on a 6-point Guttman scale.
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| Comments |
In the intensive care unit (ICU): Good reliability, but not for cognition. For cognition use SF36 for cognitive items instead.
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| Scoring |
Items are scored on a scale of 0 (complete dependence) to 5 (independence). Overall scores range from 0 to 50 points.
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| References |
Corner EJ, Wood H, Englebretsen C, Thomas A, Grant RL, Nikoletou D, Soni N. The Chelsea critical care physical assessment tool (CPAx): validation of an innovative new tool to measure physical morbidity in the general adult critical care population; an observational proof-of-concept pilot study. Physiotherapy. 2013;99(1):33-41.
Document last updated February 2018
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