The scale for contraversive pushing: A reliability and validity study

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 468-472

  Baccini, Marco ^a   Paci, Matteo ^a,b   Rinaldi, Lucio A ^c  

^a Department of Geriatric Rehabilitation ^*  (Italy)

^b HOSPITAL OF PRATO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assessment; Pusher syndrome; Reliability; Stroke; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; PUSHER BEHAVIOR; RELIABILITY; SCALE FOR CONTRAVERSIVE PUSHING; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; TECHNIQUE; VALIDITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33750611444     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968306291849     Document Type: Article

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