Rasch analysis of the modified version of the Postural Assessment Scale for Stroke patients: Postural Stroke Study in Gothenburg (POSTGOT)

BMC Neurology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Persson, Carina U ^a   Sunnerhagen, Katharina S ^a   Lundgren Nilsson, Åsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assessment; Outcomes; Rasch model; Rehabilitation; Rehabilitation medicine; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODIFIED VERSION OF THE POSTURAL ASSESSMENT SCALE FOR STROKE PATIENTS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RASCH ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SITTING; STANDING; STROKE PATIENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; STROKE;

EID: 84902751316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-14-134     Document Type: Article

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