Table 1.

Recommended clinical outcome measures for patients undergoing HAL rehabilitation

	Evaluation measures
Patient demographics	Age, sex, handedness, stroke etiology (i.e. ischemic vs hemorrhagic, location of stroke lesion, etc.), primary stroke treatment (i.e. medications, surgical procedures, etc.), starting date of rehabilitation, duration of HAL treatment, number of HAL treatment sessions
Stroke severity assessment	Glasgow coma scale (GCS), modified rankin scale (mRS), national institute of health stroke scale (NIHSS), stroke impairment assessment set (SIAS)
Motor function	Fugl-Meyer assessment (FMA), 10-m walking test (10MWT), 2-minute walk test, action research arm test (ARAT), Berg balance scale (BBS)
Activities of daily living	Barthel index (BI), functional independence measure (FIM)
Quality of life	SF-36
Cognition	Mini-mental status exam (MMSE), Motreal cognitive assessment (MoCA)
Mood	Apathy scale, self-rating depression scale (SDS)
Others	Modified Ashworth scale (for spasticity assessment), adverse events (for safety assessment), imaging studies including fMRI, DTI, and NIRS

DTI: diffusion tensor imaging, fMRI: functional magnetic resonance imaging, NIRS: near infrared spectroscopy.