The reliability of assessment of vibration sense

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 293-298

  Peters, E W ^a   Bienfait, H M E ^a,b   De Visser, M ^a   De Haan, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Healthy subjects; Interobserver; Intraobserver; Reliability; Vibration threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FOOT; GENDER; HAND; HEIGHT; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; VIBRATION SENSE;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 0038702331     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0404.2003.01333.x     Document Type: Article

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