Computer-Adaptive Balance Testing Improves Discrimination Between Community-Dwelling Elderly Fallers and Nonfallers.

Abstract: Objectives: To build an item response theory–based computer adaptive test (CAT) for balance from 3 traditional, fixed-form balance measures: Berg Balance Scale (BBS), Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA), and dynamic gait index (DGI); and to examine whether the CAT's psychometri...

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Publicado en:Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Vol. 95; no. 7; pp. 1320 - 1321
Autores principales: Pardasaney, Poonam K., Ni, Pengsheng, Slavin, Mary D., Latham, Nancy K., Wagenaar, Robert C., Bean, Jonathan, Jette, Alan M.
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: W B Saunders Jul2014
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