Use of self-report to predict ability to walk 400 meters in mobility-limited older adults

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2099-2103

  Sayers, Stephen P ^a,d   Brach, Jennifer S ^b   Newman, Anne B ^b   Heeren, Tim C ^a   Guralnik, Jack M ^c   Fielding, Roger A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Disability; Function; Mobility; Self report

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; SELF REPORT; VOLUNTEER; WALKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; EVALUATION; FRAIL ELDERLY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE; SELF EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WALKING;

EID: 16644382656     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52571.x     Document Type: Article

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