Introduction:
The purpose of this study was to determine cut scores to predict independent ambulation for the Simplified Stroke Rehabilitation Assessment of Movement (S-STREAM), Berg Balance Scale (BBS), Barthel Index (BI) for Activities of Daily Living for patients with time after stroke up to 1 year. The study’s second goal was to establish statistical dependence between the tests the S-STREAM, BBS, BI, and the Functional Ambulation Category (FAC).

Methods:
Cohort observational retrospective pilot study by design. Twenty-four people who suffered a stroke within the past year were enrolled in the study. The FAC was used to classify patients into independent walking and non-walking groups (scores 0–2 are non-walking patients, scores 4–5 are independent walking patients). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was performed for the S-STREAM, BBS, BI selected according to the multiple logistic regression analysis with dichotomy on groups independent walking patients and not.

Results:
ROC analysis of scores at admission were used to determine cut scores for the independent waking ability for each of the listed measures. The cut score for S-STREAM was 19 points, for BBS was 27 points and for BI was 65 points. Based on this analysis it appears there is sufficient evidence to conclude a significant linear relationship between all tests the S-STREAM, BBS, BI, and FAC.

Conclusions:
In patients who were ambulators, less than one year post stroke, this pilot study established a cut score for standardized assessment tools S-STREAM, BBS, BI for Activities of Daily Living.