Functional gait assessment: Concurrent, discriminative, and predictive validity in community-dwelling older adults

Physical Therapy

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 761-773

  Wrisley, Diane M ^a   Kumar, Neeraj A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77952335488     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20090069     Document Type: Article

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