A comparison of gait assessment methods: Tinetti and gaitrite electronic walkway

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2044-2045

  Shore, Wendy S ^a   DeLateur, Barbara J ^a   Kuhlemeier, Keith V ^a   Imteyez, Hejab ^a   Rose, Gregory ^a   Williams, Michael A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SHUNTING;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; EXERCISE TEST; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS;

EID: 29244447375     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.00479_9.x     Document Type: Letter

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