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The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is a standardised, field-expedient test battery intended to assess movement quality and has been used clinically in preparticipation screening and in sports injury research.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Aim<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>To critically appraise and summarise research investigating the reliability of scores obtained using the FMS battery.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Study design<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Systematic literature review.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Systematic search of Google Scholar, Scopus (including ScienceDirect and PubMed), EBSCO (including Academic Search Complete, AMED, CINAHL, Health Source: Nursing\/Academic Edition), MEDLINE and SPORTDiscus. Studies meeting eligibility criteria were assessed by 2 reviewers for risk of bias using the Quality Appraisal of Reliability Studies checklist. Overall quality of evidence was determined using van Tulder's levels of evidence approach.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>12 studies were appraised. Overall, there was a \u2018moderate\u2019 level of evidence in favour of \u2018acceptable\u2019 (intraclass correlation coefficient \u22650.6) inter-rater and intra-rater reliability for composite scores derived from <jats:italic>live<\/jats:italic> scoring. For inter-rater reliability of composite scores derived from <jats:italic>video<\/jats:italic> recordings there was \u2018conflicting\u2019 evidence, and \u2018limited\u2019 evidence for intra-rater reliability. For inter-rater reliability based on <jats:italic>live<\/jats:italic> scoring of individual subtests there was \u2018moderate\u2019 evidence of \u2018acceptable\u2019 reliability (\u03ba\u22650.4) for 4 subtests (Deep Squat, Shoulder Mobility, Active Straight-leg Raise, Trunk Stability Push-up) and \u2018conflicting\u2019 evidence for the remaining 3 (Hurdle Step, In-line Lunge, Rotary Stability).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>This review found \u2018moderate\u2019 evidence that raters can achieve acceptable levels of inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of composite FMS scores when using <jats:italic>live<\/jats:italic> ratings. 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