Nurse Screening of Low - Birth-Weight Infants for Cerebral Palsy Using Goniometry

Nursing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 284-287

  Pinto Martin, Jennifer A ^a   Torre, Carolyn ^a   Zhao, Huaqing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; HUMAN; KNEE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIATRIC NURSING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANKLE JOINT; CEREBRAL PALSY; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KNEE JOINT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC NURSING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031225345     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006199-199709000-00007     Document Type: Article

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