Validity of clinical and patient ratings of tremor disability among older adults

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-18

  Lundervold, Duane A ^a   Pahwa, Rajesh ^b   Ament, Patrick A ^a   Corbin, D Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disability; Essential tremor; Older adults; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0141453807     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8020(03)00061-0     Document Type: Article

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