Interrater agreement and stability of the Functional Independence Measure for Children (WEEFIM): use in children with developmental disabilities.
OBJECTIVE: Examination of the interrater agreement and stability of ratings obtained using the Functional Independence Measure for Children (WeeFIM) in a sample of children with developmental disabilities. DESIGN: A relational design was used in which two sets of WeeFIM scores were collected under f...
| Publicado en: | Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Vol. 78; no. 12; pp. 1309 - 1316 |
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W B Saunders
1997 Dec
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