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Effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation following acquired brain injury: Preliminary evaluation of a UK specialist rehabilitation programme

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Pages 1119-1129 | Received 22 Feb 2005, Accepted 11 Jan 2006, Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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