Disability after severe injury: Five year follow up of a large cohort

Injury

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-59

  Braithwaite, Ian J ^a   Boot, Dalton A ^a   Patterson, Mal ^a   Robinson, Ann ^a  

^a WARRINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISABILITY; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIS INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ENGLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0031925458     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(97)00164-2     Document Type: Article

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