Inpatient rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury: The influence of age on treatments and outcomes.
BACKGROUND: Elderly persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are increasingly admitted to inpatient rehabilitation, but we have limited knowledge of their characteristics, the treatments they receive, and their short-term and medium-term outcomes. This study explored these issues by means of compar...
| Publicado en: | NeuroRehabilitation Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 233 - 253 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2013
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