The two screening tools that’s going to be discussed in this paper are: Timed Up & Go Test (TUG) and Five-Times-Sit-to-Stand Test (FTSTS). The TUG test is conducted from a sitting position (in a chair) and it is used to identify/screen elderly individuals who are prone to fall. Patients are timed in seconds and tasks are done in three trials. The cutoff level for TUG are 13.5 seconds or longer for high risk falls. The interrater reliability was very high with r = .98 (Shumway-Cook, Brauer, Woollacott, 2000). According to Crist McVay & Marocco, reliability means the outcome of screening must be consistent when the test is executed by different testers with identical expertise level during dissimilar periods and under disparate conditions (2013).
