Defining disability: Development and validation of a mobility-Disability Severity Index (mDSI) in Charcot-Marie-tooth disease

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 635-639

  Ramchandren, Sindhu ^a   Shy, Michael ^b   Feldman, Eva ^a   Carlos, Ruth ^a   Siskind, Carly ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS ASSESSMENT; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILITY DISABILITY SEVERITY INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; AGED; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; DISABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ADULT; AGED; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84930009268     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2013-307390     Document Type: Article

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