Reliability of a new scale for essential tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1567-1569

  Elble, Rodger ^a   Comella, Cynthia ^b   Fahn, Stanley ^c   Hallett, Mark ^d   Jankovic, Joseph ^e   Juncos, Jorge L ^f   Lewitt, Peter ^g   Lyons, Kelly ^h   Ondo, William ⁱ   Pahwa, Rajesh ^h   Sethi, Kapil ^j   Stover, Natividad ^k   Tarsy, Daniel ^l   Testa, Claudia ^m   Tintner, Ron ⁿ   Watts, Ray ^k   Zesiewicz, Theresa ^o  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Henry Ford Health Systems   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^j MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^l HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^m VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Essential tremor; Rating scale; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; ESSENTIAL TREMOR RATING ASSESSMENT SCALE; FACE; HEAD; HEAD TREMOR; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; LEG; LIMB TREMOR; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; TRUNK; VOICE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84867746677     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.25162     Document Type: Article

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