Functional Cognition Index©: A New Instrument to Assess Cognitive Disability After Traumatic Brain Injury

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 45-51

  Labi, Maria L c ^a   Brentjens, Mathijs ^a   Shaffer, Kathleen ^b   Weiss, Claudia ^b   Zielezny, Maria A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive disability; Functional assessment; TBI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY;

EID: 0031696517     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/154596839801200201     Document Type: Article

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