Three raters evaluated 20 people with and without a neurological
diagnosis. Test items with the highest item-section correlations defined the new
Brief-BESTest. The validity of the BESTest, the Mini-BESTest, and the new Brief-
BESTest to identify people with or without a neurological diagnosis was compared.
Interrater reliability of the test versions was evaluated by intraclass correlation
coefficients. Validity was further investigated by determining the ability of each
version of the examination to identify the fall status of a second cohort of 26 people
with and without multiple sclerosis.