Intra- and inter-rater reliability and validity of the Ottawa Sitting Scale: A new tool to characterise sitting balance in acute care patients

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1568-1575

  Thornton, Marianne ^a   Sveistrup, Heidi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balance; outcome assessment; physiotherapy; rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STROKE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955082131     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638280903567893     Document Type: Article

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