Items of hip abductor strength, functional reach, one-leg stance, lateral
push-and-release, standing on foam with eyes closed, and the Timed “Up & Go” Test
defined the Brief-BESTest. Intraclass correlation coefficients for all examination versions
were greater than .98. The accuracy of identifying people from the first cohort
with or without a neurological diagnosis was 78% for the BESTest versus 72% for the
Mini-BESTest or Brief-BESTest. The sensitivity to fallers from the second cohort was
100% for the Brief-BESTest, 71% for the Mini-BESTest, and 86% for the BESTest, and
all versions exhibited specificity of 95% to 100% to identify nonfallers