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Comparison of the predictive power of socio-economic variables, severity of injury and age on long-term outcome of traumatic brain injury: sample-specific variables versus factors as predictors

Dan Hoofien The National Institute for the Rehabilitation of the Brain Injured & The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Eli Vakil Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Assaf Gilboa The National Institute for the Rehabilitation of the Brain Injured, Israel
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Peter J. Donovick State University of NY at Binghamton, New York, USA
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Ohr Barak The National Institute for the Rehabilitation of the Brain Injured & The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Pages 9-27 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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