within the context analyzed and our
specific patient group—the high reliability
levels of the Mini-BESTest,
confirmed those of the BBS, and
proved the validity of both scales for
measuring balance function and its
change over time. In addition, our
findings show how much the calculation
of success rates (ie, percentages
of patients having a change
greater than the MIC value) can be
useful from a clinical point of view.32
Most responsiveness indexes of the
Mini-BESTest were equivalent or
compared favorably with those of
the BBS. The main advantages of the
Mini-BESTest over the BBS appear to
be that it has a lower ceiling effect
together with slightly higher reliability
levels, which led to greater accuracy
in classifying individual patients
who showed significant improvement
in balance function