Validation of a portable instrument for assessing tremor severity in epidemiologic field studies

Movement Disorders

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 95-102

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c   Yousefzadeh, Edna ^b   Barnes, Livia F ^b   Yu, Qiping ^a   Pullman, Seth L ^a   Wendt, Kristin J ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Essential tremor; Klove Matthews; Quantification; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIDEOTAPE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0033957963     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8257(200001)15:1<95::AID-MDS1015>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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