Return to productive activity after traumatic brain injury: Relationship with measures of disability, handicap, and community integration
Archives of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationPublished 1 January 2002
Amy K. Wagner, Flora M. Hammond, Howell Sasser, David R. Wiercisiewski
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Premorbid and injury-related variables and measures of handicap and community integration were associated with RTPA at 1 year to understand and effectively support vocational pursuits in the TBI population.
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Premorbid and injury-related variables and measures of handicap and community integration were associated with RTPA at 1 year. To understand and effectively support vocational pursuits in the TBI population, future studies are needed to define further causality and origin of these relationships.
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