The standardized three-metre walking test for elderly people (WALK3m): Repeatability and real change

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 843-850

  Simpson, Janet M ^a   Valentine, John ^b   Worsfold, Christian ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HOME; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; REHABILITATION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLING; STANDARDIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REHABILITATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 0036904532     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215502cr569oa     Document Type: Article

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