Assistive robots in health care settings

Home Health Care Management and Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 177-187

  Nejat, Goldie ^a   Sun, Yiyuan ^b,c   Nies, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Health care; Literature review; Practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 64149125933     PISSN: 10848223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084822308325695     Document Type: Review

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