Interrater reliability of the berg balance scale when used by clinicians of various experience levels to assess people with lower limb amputations

Physical Therapy

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 371-378

  Wong, Christopher K ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURAL BALANCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSATION DISORDERS;

EID: 84897593322     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20130182     Document Type: Article

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