Improving the social security disability decision process

Improving the Social Security Disability Decision Process

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-269

  Stobo, John D ^a   McGeary, Michael ^b   Barnes, David K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.17226/11859     Document Type: Book

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