The Five-Point Test: Reliability, Validity and Normative Data for Children and Adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Tucha, Lara ^a   Aschenbrenner, Steffen ^b   Koerts, Janneke ^a   Lange, Klaus W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FIVE POINT TEST; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMATIVE DATA; PARKINSON DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866649508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046080     Document Type: Article

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