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Original Articles

Evaluating an intervention to increase meaningful activity after severe traumatic brain injury: A single-case experimental design with direct inter-subject and systematic replications

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Pages 641-672 | Received 29 Apr 2018, Accepted 07 Jun 2018, Published online: 09 Jul 2018

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