The assessment of minor neurological dysfunction in infancy using the Touwen Infant Neurological Examination: Strengths and limitations

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-92

  Hadders Algra, Mijna ^a   Heineman, Kirsten R ^a   Bos, Arend F ^a   Middelburg, Karin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 73249118262     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03305.x     Document Type: Article

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