The validity of patient and physician estimates of walking distance

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 394-401

  Giantomaso, Tony ^a   Makowsky, Lesia ^b   Ashworth, Nigel L ^a   Sankaran, Rajini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; STROKE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIANS; REHABILITATION; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 0038779503     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215503cr626oa     Document Type: Article

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