Inter-rater reliability of manual muscle strength testing in ICU survivors and simulated patients

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1038-1043

  Fan, Eddy ^a   Ciesla, Nancy D ^c   Truong, Alex D ^a   Bhoopathi, Vinodh ^d   Zeger, Scott L ^b   Needham, Dale M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic techniques and procedures; Epidemiologic research design; Muscle strength; Muscle weakness; Physical examination; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; STANDARD; SURVIVOR;

COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 77954456408     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-1796-6     Document Type: Article

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