Early Human Development
Volume 83, Issue 1 , Pages 13-18 , January 2007

General movement assessment: Predicting cerebral palsy in clinical practise

  • Lars Adde

      Affiliations

    • Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children and Women's Health, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
    • Department of Physiotherapy, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Olav Kyrres gt 11, 7491 Trondheim, Norway. Tel.: +47 72 57 46 54, +47 91897615; fax: +47 73 86 73 22.
    • ,
  • Marite Rygg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children and Women's Health, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
    • Department of Paediatrics, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
    • ,
  • Kristin Lossius

      Affiliations

    • Health and Medical Department, Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority, Hamar, Norway
    • ,
  • Gunn Kristin Øberg

      Affiliations

    • The Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Norway
    • Department of Physiotherapy, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway
    • ,
  • Ragnhild Støen

      Affiliations

    • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Department of Paediatrics, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
    • Present address: Division of Neonatology, Department of Paediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

,Accepted 16 March 2006.

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PII: S0378-3782(06)00089-2

doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2006.03.005

Early Human Development
Volume 83, Issue 1 , Pages 13-18 , January 2007

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