Test of everyday attention in patients with chronic stroke: Test-retest reliability and practice effects

Brain Injury

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1148-1154

  Chen, Hui Chun ^a   Koh, Chia Lin ^b   Hsieh, Ching Lin ^b,c   Hsueh, I Ping ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Attention; Outcome measures; Rehabilitation; Reliability; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; TEST OF EVERYDAY ATTENTION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; ATTENTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84881404158     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2013.775483     Document Type: Article

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