A teaching videotape for the assessment of essential tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 89-93

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b   Barnes, Livia ^b   Wendt, Kristin J ^b   Ford, Blair ^a   Sangiorgio, Maria ^a   Tabbal, Samer ^a   Lewis, Linda ^a   Kaufmann, Petra ^a   Moskowitz, Carol ^a   Comella, Cynthia L ^c   Goetz, Christopher C ^c   Lang, Anthony E ^d  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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

^c Toronto Hospital ^*  (United States)

^d TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical rating scale; Epidemiology; Essential tremor; Teaching videotape

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIDEOTAPE;

ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEACHING; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0035241268     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8257(200101)16:1<89::AID-MDS1001>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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