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Research Article

Inter-rater reliability of the Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX): Comparative data from non-clinician respondents—all raters are not equal

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Pages 997-1004 | Received 17 Aug 2010, Accepted 08 Jun 2011, Published online: 12 Jul 2011

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