Preferred Label : North Star Ambulatory Assessment Clinical Classification;
NCIt related terms : NSAA1; NSAA;
NCIt definition : A standardized 17-item scale that was developed by Elaine Scott and Michelle Eagle
in 2011 to measure functional motor ability in ambulant children and adolescents with
Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The instrument, which is partly based on the Hammersmith
Motor Ability Scale (2003), utilizes a 3-point rating scale to grade activities ranging
from standing to running, as well as abilities that are necessary for a patient to
remain functionally ambulant and that are known to progressively deteriorate in untreated
DMD.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: North Star Ambulatory Assessment (NSAA) (Copyright the North Star Clinical
Network UK. Scott E, Eagle M, Mayhew A, Freeman J, Main M, Sheehan J, Manzur A, Muntoni
F; North Star Clinical Network for Paediatric Neuromuscular Disease. Development of
a functional assessment scale for ambulatory boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Physiother Res Int. 2012 Jun;17(2):101-9. The support of Muscular Dystrophy United
Kingdom in developing the North Star Ambulatory Assessment is gratefully acknowledged).;
NCI Metathesaurus CUI : CL520466;
Origin ID : C132531;
UMLS CUI : C4330834;
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