Research

2018

  • An Evaluation of the Inter-Rater and Intra-Rater Reliability of OccuPro's FCE

    Jim Mecham, Vic Zuccarello, Carrie Scheel, Ryan Mattes – 2018

    The overall conclusion that can be drawn is that multiple therapists could use OccuPro's FCE method with the same patient or multiple patients and have confidence they will achieve consistent results and make sound return-to-work or residual functional capacity decisions.

2013

  • Inter-Rater Reliability of the OccuPro Functional Capacity Evaluation

    Renee Buckley, Jody Ferracane, Lucy Pickerill – 2013

    We found the OccuPro FCE upper extremity subtests to have a moderate to excellent inter‐rater reliability with subjects who have suffered an upper extremity injury. Results of this study provide clinicians confidence in the use of the OccuPro FCE upper extremity subtests to measure gross motor, fine motor, grip strength, and pinch strength with patients who have an upper extremity injury.

2012

  • OccuPro FCE: A Study of Inter-Rater Reliability

    Chris Bates, Josh Hint, Brian Zamzow, Mike Lundstrum, Daniel Prescher – 2012

    The OccuPro functional capacity evaluation (FCE) had poor to moderate inter‐rater reliability for the five upper extremity sub-tests with 15 healthy adult participants. Future research should be completed with a more objective ordinal rating scale along with new methods of data collection.

2011

  • The Intra-Rater Reliability of Lifting, Carrying, Pushing/Pulling of OccuCare's FCE

    Naga Mahesh Devaguptapu – 2011

    The ICC scores of this study revealed a good to excellent intra-rater reliability for occasional/frequent material handling subtests (lifting & carrying) for OccuPro's functional capacity evaluation.

  • The Inter-Rater Reliability of Lifting, Carrying, Pushing/Pulling of OccuCare's FCE

    Ashok Kumar Gunda – 2011

    The ICC scores of this study revealed a moderate/good inter-rater reliability for occasional/frequent material handling subtests (lifting & carrying) for OccuPro’s functional capacity evaluation.