The validity of compliance monitors to assess wearing time of thoracic-lumbar-sacral orthoses in children with spinal cord injury

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1554-1561

  Hunter, Louis N ^a   Mitell, Sison Williamson ^b   Mendoza, Melissa M ^c   McDonald, Craig M ^b   Molitor, Fred ^b   Mulcahey, M J ^a   Betz, Randal R ^a   Vogel, Lawrence C ^c   Bagley, Anita ^b  

^a SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliance monitor; Paralytic scoliosis; Pediatric; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRACE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; ORTHOSIS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; AMBULATORY MONITORING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORTHOTICS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 50649116449     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318178864e     Document Type: Article

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