Intra- and interrater reliability and agreement of the Danish version of the Dynamic Gait Index in older people with balance impairments

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1630-1635

  Jønsson, Line R ^a   Kristensen, Morten T ^a   Tibaek, Sigrid ^a   Andersen, Christina W ^a   Juhl, Carsten ^b  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aged; Inpatients; Outpatients; Postural balance; Rehabilitation; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; WALKING AID;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DENMARK; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSATION DISORDERS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 80053576637     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2011.04.020     Document Type: Article

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