Goal Attainment Scaling in brain injury rehabilitation: Strengths, limitations and recommendations for future applications

There is increasing emphasis on the need to identify, work with and evaluate rehabilitation outcomes in ways that are personally relevant to individuals with brain injury, whether this be at a global or individual client level. This paper focuses on the use of one such method, Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS). It provides a general review of GAS and discusses what we found to be the strengths and limitations of using GAS to assess functional...