Gender-specific Constant score correction for age

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 529-533

  Tavakkolizadeh, A ^a,b   Ghassemi, A ^a   Colegate Stone, T ^a   Latif, A ^a   Sinha, J ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Constant score; Gender

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOULDER; SHOULDER PAIN; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; SHOULDER JOINT; SHOULDER PAIN; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349177320     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-009-0744-x     Document Type: Article

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