Inter- and intra-observer agreement of Prechtl's method on the qualitative assessment of general movements in preterm, term and young infants

Early Human Development

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 633-639

  Bernhardt, I ^a   Marbacher, M ^a   Hilfiker, R ^b   Radlinger, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

General movements; Pediatrics; Physiotherapy; Prechtl; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; KAPPA STATISTICS; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRECHTL METHOD; PREMATURITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TECHNIQUE; TERM BIRTH; TRAINING; VIDEORECORDING;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MOVEMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 80052679164     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2011.04.017     Document Type: Article

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