A Short Physical Performance Battery Assessing Lower Extremity Function: Association With Self-Reported Disability and Prediction of Mortality and...

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This study provides evidence that performance measures can validly characterize older persons across a broad spectrum of lower extremity function. Performance and self-report measures may complement each other in providing useful information about functional status.

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Test (biology)Timed Up and Go testMedicineBalance (ability)Physical therapyPhysical medicine and rehabilitationGaitGerontologyPsychology

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Year: 1994
Type: article
Volume: 49
Issue: 2
Pages: M85-M94
Citations: 9188
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                                    Jack M. Guralnik, 
                                
                                    E. M. Simonsick, 
                                
                                    Luigi Ferrucci
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1994). 
                            A Short Physical Performance Battery Assessing Lower Extremity Function: Association With Self-Reported Disability and Prediction of Mortality and Nursing Home Admission. 
                            Journal of Gerontology
                            , 49
                            (2)
                            , M85-M94.
                            https://doi.org/10.1093/geronj/49.2.m85
                        

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DOI: 10.1093/geronj/49.2.m85