Reliability of family report for the Gross Motor Function Classification System

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 455-460

  Morris, Christopher ^a   Galuppi, Barbara E ^b   Rosenbaum, Peter L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSKINESIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SPASTICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED CHILDREN; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 3042734515     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162204000751     Document Type: Article

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