Rehabilitation outcomes after brain injury: Disability measures or goal achievement?

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 398-404

  Liu, Clarence ^a   McNiel, Jane E ^b   Greenwood, Richard ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2542519938     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215504cr741oa     Document Type: Article

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