A re-validation of the Rivermead ADL scale for elderly patients with stroke. Export

@article{Lincoln NB, Edmans JA , abstract = {The Rivermead ADL scale was developed for assessing activities of daily living in stroke patients but was not validated for elderly subjects. This study was designed to validate the scale for patients aged over 64 years. A series of 150 stroke patients was assessed on the scale, of whom 103 were aged over 64 years. The coefficients of reproducibility and 'scalability' were within acceptable limits both for patients aged under 65 and over 64 years. A revised order of assessment is suggested based on the order of difficulty of items. The two original household scales were combined to give an overall household scale which was validated as a unidimensional Guttman scale.}, address = {Stroke Research Unit, General Hospital, Nottingham.}, author = {Lincoln, N. B. and Edmans, J. A.}, citeulike-article-id = {3043603}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2316420}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=2316420}, comment = {guttman\_stroke}, issn = {0002-0729}, journal = {Age and ageing}, keywords = {irt-stroke-adl}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {19--24}, posted-at = {2008-07-25 21:04:47}, priority = {0}, title = {A re-validation of the Rivermead ADL scale for elderly patients with stroke.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2316420}, volume = {19}, year = {1990} }

TY - JOUR ID - Lincoln NB, Edmans JA L3 - citeulike-article-id:3043603 N2 - The Rivermead ADL scale was developed for assessing activities of daily living in stroke patients but was not validated for elderly subjects. This study was designed to validate the scale for patients aged over 64 years. A series of 150 stroke patients was assessed on the scale, of whom 103 were aged over 64 years. The coefficients of reproducibility and 'scalability' were within acceptable limits both for patients aged under 65 and over 64 years. A revised order of assessment is suggested based on the order of difficulty of items. The two original household scales were combined to give an overall household scale which was validated as a unidimensional Guttman scale. IS - 1 JF - Age and ageing SN - 0002-0729 AD - Stroke Research Unit, General Hospital, Nottingham. EP - 24 TI - A re-validation of the Rivermead ADL scale for elderly patients with stroke. VL - 19 SP - 19 KW - irt-stroke-adl N1 - guttman_stroke AU - Lincoln, NB AU - Edmans, JA PY - 1990/01// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2316420 ER -