Pushing or pulling to predict falls in Parkinson disease?

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 530-531

  Hass, Christopher J ^a   Bloem, Bastiaan R ^b   Okun, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY EQUILIBRIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALLING; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPEN STUDY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT SURVEY; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE;

EID: 53949126136     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0912     Document Type: Short Survey

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