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CLINICAL ISSUES

Classification accuracy and resistance to coaching of the Spanish version of the Inventory of Problems-29 and the Inventory of Problems-Memory: A simulation study with mTBI patients

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Pages 738-762 | Received 16 Feb 2023, Accepted 12 Aug 2023, Published online: 24 Aug 2023

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