DEMMI development in the acute hospital setting
DEMMI Development
de Morton NA, Doctoral Thesis. Measuring Mobility and the Effects of Exercise for Older Acute Medical Patients. Monash University, Department of Physiotherapy, Victoria, Australia. Submitted Aug 2007. Awarded Dec 2007.
DEMMI papers arising from thesis in acute hospital setting
de Morton N, Davidson M, Keating J (2008). The de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI): an essential health index for an ageing world. BMC Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 6:63.
de Morton, N., Davidson, M., & Keating, J. (2010). Validity, responsiveness and the minimal clinically important difference for the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) in an older acute medical population. BMC Geriatrics, 30;10:72.
de Morton, N., Davidson, M., & Keating, J. (2011). Reliability of the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) in an older acute medical population. Physiotherapy Research International, In press.
de Morton NA, Davidson M, Keating J (2013). The development of the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) in an independent sample of older acute medical patients: refinement and validation using the Rasch model (part 2). J Applied Measurement 14(3); 219-31. 32.
de Morton NA, Davidson M, Keating J (2013). The development of the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) in an older acuter medical population: item reduction using the Rasch model (part 1). J Applied Measurement 14(2); 159-78.
Further Validation of the DEMMI
Community Care Recipients
de Morton N, Meyer C, Dow B, Moore K, Jones C, Hill K (2011). Validation of the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) with older community care recipients. Australasian Journal of Ageing, 57;109-116.
Rehabilitation inpatient hospital setting.
de Morton N & Lane K (2010). Validity and reliability of the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) in the subacute hospital setting in a geriatric evaluation and management (GEM) population. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 42(10):956-61.
Healthy Community Dwelling older adults
Davenport, S., & de Morton, N. (2011). The reliability and validity of the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) in healthy community dwelling older adults. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 92(1):51-8.
Transitioning from hospital to the community
de Morton NA, Brusco NK, Wood L, Lawler K, Taylor NF (2011). The de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) provides a valid method for measuring and monitoring the mobility of patients transitioning from hospital to the community: a prospective observational cohort study. Journal of Physiotherapy. In press.
Normative data
Macri EM, Lewis J, Khan KM, Ashe MC, de Morton NA (2012). The de Morton Mobility Index: normative data for a clinically useful mobility instrument. J Ageing Res.
Other
de Morton N, Nolan J, O’Brien M, Thomas S, Govier A, Sherwell K, Harris, B, Markham N (2015). A head-to-head comparison of the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) and the Elderly Mobility Scale (EMS) in an older acute medical population. Disability and Rehabilitation, in press.
Denehy L, de Morton NA, Skinner EH, Edbrooke L, Haines K, Warrillow S, Berney S (2013). A physical function test for use in the intensive care unit: validity, responsiveness and predictive utility of the physical function ICU test (scored). Physical Therapy, 93(12); 1636-45
Johnston M, de Morton NA, Harding K, Taylor N (2013). Measuring mobility in patients living in the community with Parkinsons Disease. NeuroRehabilitation 32(4); 957-66.
de Morton NA, Harding KE, Taylor NF, Harrison G. Validity of the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) for measuring the mobility of patients with hip fracture during rehabilitation (2013). Dis & Rehab,35(4); 325-33. 26.
de Morton NA, Brusco NK, Wood L, Lawler K, Taylor NF (2011). The de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) provides a valid method for measuring and monitoring the mobility of patients transitioning from hospital to the community: a prospective observational cohort study. Journal of Physiotherapy, 57:109-116.
de Morton N, Meyer C, Dow B, Moore K, Jones C, Hill K (2011). Validation of the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) with older community care recipients. Australasian Journal of Ageing, 30(4):220-5.
Related Systematic Reviews
Belvedere SL & de Morton NA (2010). Characteristics of Rasch application in the development or refinement of mobility scales: A systematic review. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
Davenport S, Paynter S & de Morton N (2008). What instruments are available for measuring the mobility of healthy community dwelling older adults? Physical Therapy Reviews,13:5, 345-354.
de Morton N, Berlowitz D, Keating J (2008). A systematic review of instruments for measuring the mobility of older acute medical patients. BMC Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 6:44.
