Reporting outcomes of the Assisting Hand Assessment: What scale should be used?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 807-808

  Krumlinde Sundholm, Lena ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTING HAND ASSESSMENT; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIRTH INJURIES; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PARESIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84865179138     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2012.04361.x     Document Type: Note

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