How to identify potential fallers in a stroke unit: Validity indexes of four test methods

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 186-191

  Andersson, Åsa G ^a,b   Kamwendo, Kitty ^c   Seiger, Åke ^b   Appelros, Peter ^a,b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fall risk prevention; Stroke

Indexed keywords

SEDATIVE AGENT;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BERG BALANCE SCALE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RATING SCALE; STOPS WALKING WHEN TALKING; TIMED UP & GO; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPEECH; VISION DISORDERS; WALKING;

EID: 33646674857     PISSN: 16501977     EISSN: 16512081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16501970500478023     Document Type: Article

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