The definition of cerebral palsy

E Blair, C Cans - Cerebral Palsy: A Multidisciplinary Approach, 2018 - Springer
Cerebral palsy (CP) should not be considered as a diagnosis but as a label; it is an umbrella
term. The definition is not sufficiently precise to guarantee agreement as to which patients to …

Cerebral palsy: not always what it seems

R Gupta, RE Appleton - Archives of disease in childhood, 2001 - adc.bmj.com
Cerebral palsy (CP) is an umbrella term that defines a group of non-progressive, but often
changing, syndromes of motor impairment secondary to lesions or anomalies of the brain …

Interobserver agreement in the classification of cerebral palsy

E Blair, F Stanley - Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 1985 - Wiley Online Library
Interobserver variation in diagnosis is thought to be an important source of bias in studies of
cerebral palsy. Kappa (K) statistics were used as a measure of interobserver diagnostic …

Completeness and correctness of cerebral palsy diagnoses in two health registers: implications for estimating prevalence

SJ Hollung, T Vik, R Wiik, IJ Bakken… - … Medicine & Child …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To assess completeness and correctness of cerebral palsy (CP) diagnoses in the
Cerebral Palsy Register of Norway (CPRN) and the Norwegian Patient Register (NPR), and …

The Changing Panorama of Cerebral Palsy in Sweden: IV. Epidemiological Trends 1959–78

B Hagberg, G Hagberg, I Olow - Acta Paediatrica, 1984 - Wiley Online Library
From a population‐based series of 773 patients with cerebral palsy (CP) born in 1959–78,
an analysis was made of the epidemiological trends over this period of 20 years, divided into …

Cerebral palsy in southern Sweden II. Gross motor function and disabilities

E Nordmark, G Hägglund, J Lagergren - Acta paediatrica, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The gross motor function and disabilities in children with cerebral palsy in southern Sweden
were investigated and related to clinical features. The study covered the birth year period …

Sex differences in cerebral palsy incidence and functional ability: a total population study

A Chounti, G Hägglund, P Wagner… - Acta Paediatrica, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To describe gender difference in a total population of children with cerebral palsy (CP),
related to subtype, gross and fine motor function, and to compare CP incidence trends in …

[PDF][PDF] The definition and classification of cerebral palsy

P Baxter, C Morris, P Rosenbaum, N Paneth… - Dev Med Child …, 2007 - researchgate.net
This supplement is centred on the final version of the Report on the Definition and
Classification of Cerebral Palsy from the group chaired by Murray Goldstein and Martin Bax …

Validity and reliability of the guidelines of the surveillance of cerebral palsy in Europe for the classification of cerebral palsy

M Gainsborough, G Surman, G Maestri… - … medicine & child …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The validity and reliability of the guidelines of the Surveillance of Cerebral Palsy in Europe
(SCPE) for the classification of cerebral palsy (CP) were tested by administering 10 written …

Population-based study on the prevalence and clinical profile of adults with cerebral palsy in Northern Ireland

K McConnell, E Livingstone, O Perra, C Kerr - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives This study aimed to report the prevalence and clinical characteristics of adults
with cerebral palsy (CP) in a geographically defined region of the UK. Design and setting …