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Name:: Bowel management independence past three months scale
Steward:: NINDS
Definition:: The scale that assesses the participant's degree of independence during bowel management within the last three months.
Registration Status:: Qualified

Value	Code Name	Code Description
Requires total assistance	Requires total assistance	Requires total assistance
Requires partial assistance, does not clean self	Requires partial assistance, does not clean self	Requires partial assistance, does not clean self
Requires partial assistance, cleans self independently	Requires partial assistance, cleans self independently	Requires partial assistance, cleans self independently
Uses toilet independently in all tasks but needs adaptive devices or special setting (e.g. bars)	Uses toilet independently in all tasks but needs adaptive devices or special setting (e.g. bars)	Uses toilet independently in all tasks but needs adaptive devices or special setting (e.g. bars)
Uses toilet independently, does not need adaptive devices or special setting	Uses toilet independently, does not need adaptive devices or special setting	Uses toilet independently, does not need adaptive devices or special setting
Unknown	Unknown	Unknown

Definition:: The scale that assesses the participant's degree of independence during bowel management within the last three months.
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Document:: The codes used are identical to those used in the Spinal Cord Independence Measure III (SCIM III) (Catz 2007). Catz A, Itzkovich M, Tesio L, Biering-SØrensen F, Weeks C, Laramee MT, Craven BC, Tonack M, Hitzing SL, Glaser E, Zeilig G, Aito S, Scivoletto G, Mecci M, Chadwick RJ, El Marsy WS, Osman A, Glass CA, Silva P, Soni BM, Gardner BP, Savic G, Bergstrom EM, Bluvshtein V, Ronen J. A multicenter international study on the spinal cord independence measure; version III: Rasch psychometric validation. Spinal Cord 2007;45(4):275-91. Krogh K, Perkash I, Stiens SA, Biering-SØrensen F. International bowel function extended spinal cord injury data set. Spinal Cord. 2009 Mar;47(3):235-41.