Assessing functional mobility after lower limb reconstruction: A psychometric evaluation of a sensor-based mobility score

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 261, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 800-806

  Kwasnicki, Richard M ^a   Hettiaratchy, Shehan ^b   Jarchi, Delaram ^a   Nightingale, Craig ^b   Wordsworth, Matthew ^b   Simmons, Jon ^b   Yang, Guang Zhong ^a   Darzi, Ara ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kinematics; Mobility; Open tibial fracture; Reconstruction; Sensing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRUTCH; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HAMLYN MOBILITY SCORE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LIMITED MOBILITY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; SHORT FORM 36; WHEELCHAIR; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEVICES; DISABILITY; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURES, OPEN; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; MALE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84938369038     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000711     Document Type: Article

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