Variables affecting Army Physical Disability processing

Military Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 456-460

  Coppola, M Nicholas ^a   Hudak, Ronald P ^b   Bales, Joel D ^c  

^a US Army Total Personnel Command   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Virginia Office of the Surgeon General   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031824991     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/163.7.456     Document Type: Article

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