The mobility scale for acute stroke patients: Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 295-300

  Simondson, Janine ^a   Goldie, Pat ^b   Brock, Kim ^a   Nosworthy, Jill ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; RECUMBENCY; RELIABILITY; STROKE; VIDEOTAPE; WALKING;

EID: 0029909174     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026921559601000406     Document Type: Article

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