Author/Editor		Zupan, Anton
Title		Assessment of the functional abilities of lower limbs in patients with neuromuscular diseases
Type		članek
Source		In: INABIS 2000. 6th internet world congress for biomedical science; 2000 Feb 14-25; La Mancha; Spain. La Mancha: Spanish society of health informatics,
Publication year		2000
Language		eng
Abstract		The goal of the present study was to devise a new test enabling objective assessment of the functional abilities of the lower limbs in patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMD). The test consists of 14 items which in turn break down into 70 (14 x 5) separate objective assessments of each patient. The test was applied to 227 patienrs with different forms of NMD. The test was properly evaluated; its reliability was tested on a randomly selected subgroup of patients with various forms of NMD. Statistical methods were applied to evaluate the concurrence of assessments obtained by 3 different examiners, and the concurrence of assessments of one and the same examiner during the first and a repeated test. Neither statistically significant differences between total test scores of 3 different examiners or between test scores of the first and subsequent evaluations of the same examiner nor statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) between the marks for single items were found. The new test has proven to be valid, feasible, acceptable, sensitive and reliable.
Descriptors		NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES MOVEMENT DISORDERS LEG SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY PHYSICAL EXAMINATION