Connecting impairment, disability, and handicap in immune mediated polyneuropathies
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Connecting impairment, disability, and handicap in immune mediated polyneuropathies.
BACKGROUND In the World Health Organisation (WHO) International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (ICIDH), it is suggested that various levels of outcome are associated with one another. However, the ICIDH has been criticised on the grounds that it only represents a general, non-specific relation between its entities. OBJECTIVE To examine the significance of the ICIDH...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.74.1.99