Handicap one year after a stroke: validity of a new scale.
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Handicap one year after a stroke: validity of a new scale.
The aim was to determine the handicap experienced by subjects one year after a stroke, and assess the acceptability, validity, and reliability of a new handicap measurement scale. A cross sectional survey of 141 survivors of a cohort of consecutive hospital admissions with acute stroke was undertaken. The London handicap scale (a new health outcome measurement scale), Barthel index, Nottingham ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.58.2.268