Is a 20% change in MSFC components clinically meaningful?

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1076-

  Contelloe, Lisa ^a   Hutchinson, Michael ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 FOOT TIMED WALK TEST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GUY NEUROLOGICAL DISABILITY SCALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IMPACT SCALE; NINE HOLE PEG TEST; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

EID: 38449099904     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458507077618     Document Type: Letter

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