Capability enhancement and amputee care in operation Iraqi freedom: The role of a rehabilitation and prosthetics assistance team in reconstruction operations

Military Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 515-519

  Scherer, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISABLED PERSON; HUMAN; LIMB PROSTHESIS; MILITARY MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; ROLE PLAYING; UNITED STATES; WAR;

AMPUTEES; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MILITARY MEDICINE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; ROLE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949380227     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-02-7108     Document Type: Article

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