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

Physical Therapy

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 774-775

  Brach, Jennifer S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; FALLING; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77952358819     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20090069.ic     Document Type: Note

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