Screening for action tremor in epidemiological field surveys: Assessing the reliability of a semi-quantitative, visual, template-based scale for rating hand-drawn spirals

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c   Zhao, Qianhua ^d   Meng, Haijiao ^d   Ding, Ding ^d  

^a Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons   (United States)

^b WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Neurosciences ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Essential tremor; Rating scale; Reliability; Spiral

Indexed keywords

EID: 85113222357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21608288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5334/TOHM.88     Document Type: Article

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