Using 4+ to grade near-normal muscle strength does not improve agreement

BACKGROUND: Manual assessment of muscle strength is often graded using the ordinal Medical Research Council (MRC) scale. The scale has a number of inherent weaknesses, including poorly defined limits between grades ‘4’ and ‘5’ and very large differences in the span of muscle strength encompassed by...

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Autores principales: O’Neill, Søren, Jaszczak, Sofie Louise Thomsen, Steffensen, Anne Katrine Søndergaard, Debrabant, Birgit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5633899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29051814
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12998-017-0159-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5633899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29051814
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12998-017-0159-6

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