Validating the Six-Minute Walk Test as a Measure of Recovery After Elective Colon Resection Surgery

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1083-1089

  Moriello, Carolina ^a   Mayo, Nancy E ^a   Feldman, Liane ^a   Carli, Franco ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Recovery of function; Rehabilitation; Reliability and validity; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SHORT FORM 36; SURGICAL RISK; WALKING;

AGE FACTORS; COLON; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERUM ALBUMIN; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 43949091148     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.11.031     Document Type: Article

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