Spinal cord injury in the emergency context: Review of program outcomes of a spinal cord injury rehabilitation program in Sri Lanka

Conflict and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Armstrong, Jo C ^a   Nichols, Brooke E ^a,b   Wilson, Joan M ^a   Cosico, Roy A ^a   Shanks, Leslie ^a  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conflict; Emergency response; M decins Sans Fronti res (MSF); Outcomes; Rehabilitation; Spinal cord injury; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899095531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1505-8-4     Document Type: Article

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