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Clinical Trial
. 2002 Jan-Mar;17(1):25-30.

Towards objective quantification of the Tinetti test

Lorenzo Panella  1 , Remo Lombardi, Angelo Buizza, Roberto Gandolfi, Paola Pizzagalli
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  • PMID: 12086109
Clinical Trial

Towards objective quantification of the Tinetti test

Lorenzo Panella et al. Funct Neurol. 2002 Jan-Mar.

Abstract

The Tinetti test is a widespread test for assessing motor control in the elderly, which could also be usefully applied in neurology. At present it uses a qualitative measurement scale. As a first step towards its objective quantification, trunk inclination was measured during the test by two inclinometers and quantified by descriptive parameters. The 95th or 5th percentiles of parameter distributions in normal subjects (no.=150) were taken as limits of normality, and parameters computed on 130 institutionalised elderly people were compared to these limits, to test the parameters' discriminatory power. The distributions of many parameters were statistically different in normal subjects and patients. These results suggest that this approach is a promising tool for objective evaluation of the Tinetti test.

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