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Original Research

Reliability and responsiveness of the Self-Efficacy in Assessing, Training and Spotting wheelchair skills (SEATS) outcome measure

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Pages 250-254 | Received 04 May 2017, Accepted 16 Dec 2017, Published online: 31 Jan 2018

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