Disability and rehabilitation
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Many patients suffer long term loss of mobility after hip fracture but there is no gold standard method for measuring mobility in this group. We aimed to validate a new mobility outcome measure, the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) in a hip fracture population during inpatient rehabilitation. ⋯ The DEMMI has a broader scale width than existing measures of activity limitation and provides a unidimensional measure of mobility for hip fracture patients during inpatient rehabilitation.