Issues in Selecting Outcome Measures to Assess Functional Recovery After Stroke

NeuroRx

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 505-524

  Barak, Sharon ^a   Duncan, Pamela W ^b,c  

^a Clinical and Health Psychology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebrovascular accident; Disability evaluation; measurement; outcome assessment; recovery; stroke

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONVALESCENCE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; MEASUREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDITY;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748975133     PISSN: 15455343     EISSN: 15455351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nurx.2006.07.009     Document Type: Article

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