Ataxia rating scales are age-dependent in healthy children

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 556-563

  Brandsma, Rick ^a   Spits, Anne H ^a   Kuiper, Marieke J ^a   Lunsing, Roelinka J ^a   Burger, Huibert ^a   Kremer, Hubertus P ^a   Sival, Deborah A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRIEF ATAXIA RATING SCALE; CHILD; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY ONSET ATAXIA; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE ATAXIA RATING SCALE; INTRAOBSERVER AGREEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEGBOARD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SCALE FOR ASSESSMENT AND RATING OF ATAXIA; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ATAXIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPORTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84899983920     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.12369     Document Type: Article

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