Can quality of movement be measured? Rasch analysis and inter-rater reliability of the Motor Evaluation Scale for Upper Extremity in Stroke Patients (MESUPES)

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 871-884

  Van De Winckel, Ann ^a   Feys, Hilde ^a   Van Der Knaap, Suzan ^b   Messerli, Ruth ^c   Baronti, Fabio ^c   Lehmann, Ruth ^c   Van Hemelrijk, Bart ^c   Pantè, Franca ^a   Perfetti, Carlo ^a   De Weerdt, Willy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Klinik Bethesda für Epilepsie und Neurorehabilitation ^*

^c Riabilitazione Neurocognitiva   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); RATING SCALE; REHABILITATION CENTER; STROKE; VALIDITY; ARM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 34250612670     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215506072181     Document Type: Article

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