Response to Letter to editor about the article “Hosbay et al. Reliability and validity of the brachial plexus outcome measure in children with obstetric brachial plexus palsy”. J Hand Ther. 2019 32(3):382-387

Modified Mallet Classification Scale, which is one of the scales we have used, has been determined as the gold standard scale by Emily Ho, the manufacturer of brachial plexus outcome measure, and it has been included in her own article.1 At its inception, our study was reviewed and approved by committees. In a study by Pondagg and Malessy,2 the reference center was the same as ours; the Mallet scale was used as the most preferred evaluation criterion. [...]many items of brachial plexus outcome measure and Mallet scale are similar. Furthermore, SPSS package program was used for statistical analysis of the study and correlation analysis interpretations mentioned in the literature were used.4 All statistical analysis and comments on the numbers were discussed between the authors under the supervision of a data scientist.