Using the international classification of functioning, disability and health as a framework to examine the association between falls and clinical assessment tools in people with stroke

Physical Therapy

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 816-825

  Beninato, Marianne ^a   Portney, Leslie G ^a   Sullivan, Patricia E ^b  

^a MGH INSTITUTE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS   (United States)

^b International Physical Therapy Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY SPECIFIC BALANCE CONFIDENCE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BERG BALANCE SCALE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FALLING; FEMALE; FIVE TIMES SIT TO STAND TEST; FUGL MEYER ASSESSMENT OF SENSORIMOTOR IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; LEG; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; ROC CURVE; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; STROKE IMPACT SCALE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTURAL BALANCE; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; STROKE;

EID: 68249126416     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20080160     Document Type: Article

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